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Selected 13
Evita Remy-Benn, SUGAR, 2023, 1:34 mins
A short experimental documentary in the form of a video collage which jumps from footage of presenter speaking about he journey of sugar cane from the slave trade to the relative present that it is ready to die. It is cut with shots of dental scenes, with another voiceover from news media speaking of teeth rotting and images of close-up of dental cleaning and sugar being made. I found the suggestion of landscapes of mouth rotting and the landscapes of sugar canes being cut down and the suggestion that it is so close to home. The sound is interesting, from dental cleaning sounds, to MTV type music. It is chaotic, fast-paced and interweaves contemporary issues of the demise of sugar in its medical, political and geographic context which I find interesting and attempts to show the horror of sugar on teeth as a metaphor for what has not been shown- the human trauma of its heritage, playing on the visible and the invisible.

Selected 13
ELLA FROST
Ela Frost
What you love too much to lose
Video collage of personal, archival Hollywood shark film, cartoon and music tv footage intertwined with shots about sharks dying, being confined, and scenes of silent ecological collapse. I felt the way the

Selected 13
Diasy Smith Dirt 2020
A short, experimental film where the camera meanders over the surface of water - not sure what I am supposed to be looking at - with a computer generated VoiceOver recanting seemingly unlikely and or incoherent experiences with doctor. The voice fades away which I find interesting as I am forced to fill the gap. The content of the conversation seems implausible but highly engaging and I enjoyed the humour, almost campness of the delivery.

Selected 13
Dan Guthrie 2022
A journey into a forest to meet with doppelgänger, a black person only named as Daniel. This resonated with me as the MRI doppelgänger is something which I am working through. But this is a time travelling experience into the archives which identify a black stranger, and with whom the narrator identifies with. He wants to find and stand by him. I found the momentum build up was moving, I almost wished the film didn’t switch to the firework scene- it felt a bit too contrived, but the script, the shots that showed him stepping into another pair of black shoes, the little anecdotes which rang true, these points in the film spoke to me viscerally and although it was not explicitly about the body, I get the way he barely showed his body, he only shoed fragments of it, were particularly effective in keeping me there. IT seemed to draw on geographical context, narrative and narratives about the idyllic countryside, archival documentation to explore erasure/presence, inclusion.

Selected 13
Aqsa Arif, Spicy Pink Tea, 2022
Not brown tea but pink Pakistani tea. A reclaiming of heritage. A colourfully clad dance-performer finds themselves immersed in a space reminiscent of British heritage and undergoes dreamlike sequences which lead to tea drinking, adopting various postures and poses, and encountering a spectral figure which transforms their demeanour. A vivacious dance in and around the fixtures of the place intertwining themes of the decolonial gaze through dance, performance, photography, folklore.

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