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![Isolation [Grant Anthony Barker, USA, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_a65afe97900b406ba16b6582f60f0d28~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1260,h_708,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_a65afe97900b406ba16b6582f60f0d28~mv2.jpg)
Will Whitehead
Apr 24, 2021
Isolation [Grant Anthony Barker, USA, 2020]
Isolation is a highly expressionistic look at the surreal boredom of long-term isolation, made during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
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Nia Jordan
Apr 24, 2021
The Self-Seers [Matthew David Ridley, South Korea, 2020]
A giant cross glows eerily atop a darkened metropolis, while a lone girl journeys home, floating in a daze – or is it a nightmare?
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Wendy Brooking
Apr 18, 2021
Venus [Andrew McGee, UK, 2021]
Saturated with stylistic similarities to science fiction cinema new and old – from Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, USA, 1982] to Ghost in the Sh
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Paromita Sengupta
Apr 18, 2021
Luna [Philippe Berthelet, Canada, 2021]
Experimental cinema is as old as cinema itself and, indeed, cinema began as an experiment. It is the generally expected of the genre that...
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Paromita Sengupta
Apr 11, 2021
Poolside [Alex Kinter & Erik Schuessler, USA, 2020]
‘How long do you have to be alone before you go crazy?’ Set in the 1950s America, Poolside is a suspense thriller with questions that run...
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Marcus Hansen
Apr 11, 2021
Covid Tales: House Party [Mike Spence, United Kingdom, 2021]
In the age or ageing of COVID-19, former barriers—between work and play, community and solidarity, movement and stasis—have melted away.
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Fung Ying Cheng
Apr 5, 2021
Manasanamaha [Deepak Reddy, India, 2020]
The film follows Surya (Viraj Ashwin) who recounts three relationships from his past...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Rio [Zhenia Kazankina, Russia/Finland, 2019]
From Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho [USA, 1960] to The Florida Project [Sean Baker, USA, 2017], motels have long dominated American cinema....
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Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Reclaiming the Negative [Mike Beech, UK/South Korea, 2020]
Since the Korean war ended in 1953, approximately 31,000 North Koreans have defected, taking the perilous journey across the southern...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Bulldog [Kieran Stringfellow, UK, 2020]
What comes to mind when you think of bulldogs? Faded tattoos stretched across grizzled biceps, multiple-ringed hands wrapped around...
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![Two Knights [Piotr Szkopiak, UK, 2022]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_4b197f184db54afc95f775fe48320bd7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_232,h_132,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_4b197f184db54afc95f775fe48320bd7~mv2.jpeg)
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