
![Isolation [Grant Anthony Barker, USA, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_a65afe97900b406ba16b6582f60f0d28~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,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.

![The Self-Seers [Matthew David Ridley, South Korea, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_7bdae6f616a147d2b15046a08c397163~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_7bdae6f616a147d2b15046a08c397163~mv2.jpeg)
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 ā or is it a nightmare?

![Venus [Andrew McGee, UK, 2021]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_7ecd457e5d084cfb9730414a23ca7f50~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_7ecd457e5d084cfb9730414a23ca7f50~mv2.jpg)
Wendy Brooking
- Apr 18, 2021
Venus [Andrew McGee, UK, 2021]
Saturated with stylistic similarities to science fiction cinema new and old ā from Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, USA, 1982] to Ghost in the Sh

![Luna [Philippe Berthelet, Canada, 2021]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_877dde1c600b4c6890fcc32e48606c1a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_234,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_877dde1c600b4c6890fcc32e48606c1a~mv2.jpg)
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 it should challenge narrative structure, defy attempts at causality, and abstract the narrative form. Philippe Bertheletās first film, Luna ā a minimalist, poetic exploration of the fluid relationship between art and life ā deals with abstract art, but in a not so abstract way. The story is about the titular Luna, whose ritual it is to pain

![Poolside [Alex Kinter & Erik Schuessler, USA, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_bde88747e4114d1e88a5dc4e7c898b9e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_bde88747e4114d1e88a5dc4e7c898b9e~mv2.jpg)
Paromita Sengupta
- Apr 11, 2021
Poolside [Alex Kinter & Erik Schuessler, USA, 2020]
āHow long do you have to be alone before you go crazy?ā Set in the 1950s America, Poolside is a suspense thriller with questions that run deep. Meg (Anne Beyer) is a lonely woman ā cooped up in the vast spaces of her house with a huge swimming pool. But what are those voices she hears? Are they real? Or is it all in her mind? As Meg repeatedly questions her own strength to keep herself from going crazy, the audience perhaps realises the answer to her questions ā it is a matte

![Covid Tales: House Party [Mike Spence, United Kingdom, 2021]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_fa7ff9aba5374ba083264d16ac5f41f9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_fa7ff9aba5374ba083264d16ac5f41f9~mv2.jpg)
Marcus Hansen
- Apr 11, 2021
Covid Tales: House Party [Mike Spence, United Kingdom, 2021]
In the age or ageing of COVID-19, former barriersābetween work and play, community and solidarity, movement and stasisāhave melted away.

![Manasanamaha [Deepak Reddy, India, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_7854aebe78cd41239e915e1d5fafcaa6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_7854aebe78cd41239e915e1d5fafcaa6~mv2.jpg)
Fung Ying Cheng
- Apr 5, 2021
Manasanamaha [Deepak Reddy, India, 2020]
The film follows Surya (Viraj Ashwin) who recounts three relationships from his past...

![Rio [Zhenia Kazankina, Russia/Finland, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_782b80efee934985a974f15e57a7e9aa~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_237,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_782b80efee934985a974f15e57a7e9aa~mv2.jpg)
Sally Roberts
- Apr 4, 2021
Rio [Zhenia Kazankina, Russia/Finland, 2019]
From Alfred Hitchcockās Psycho [USA, 1960] to The Florida Project [Sean Baker, USA, 2017], motels have long dominated American cinema. Forever sites of the seedy and the sordid, they serve as the bed-bugged backdrops for the charactersā misdeeds and misfortunes. But what about those who never get to leave? In Rio, writer and director Zhenia Kazankina flips the trope on its head: the hotel and its staff are the consistent characters while the crimes and criminals make up their

![Reclaiming the Negative [Mike Beech, UK/South Korea, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_4e6ea8ee1686456987ce9f3b42e725bf~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_4e6ea8ee1686456987ce9f3b42e725bf~mv2.jpg)
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 border. Such numbers are a stark indictment of citizensā desperation to flee one of the worldās most barbaric and oppressive political regimes. In Reclaiming the Negative, we hear from one such defector, Eun-Ju Kim, and from the photographer, Tim Franco, whose portraits have helped to capture incredible stories of courage like hers. Together th

![Bulldog [Kieran Stringfellow, UK, 2020]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_6b250dcf97ae4acfa90e3f2d4d7befb8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_241,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_6b250dcf97ae4acfa90e3f2d4d7befb8~mv2.jpg)
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 half-drunk pints of ale, and the murmur of collective grumbling in a pub replete with sports television and squalid toilets. The image is so hyper-masculine that it was even used to front a brand of skincare for men, balancing the presumed femininity of a good moisturiser. What an alpha dog. In Bulldog, award-winning writer and director Kieran St