TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present is a non-fiction film examining the pioneering life and works of artist, musician, and educator, Tony Conrad.
Chuck Berry, Rock & Roll Innovator
Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called the Father of Rock 'n' Roll, was found dead this Saturday.
Berry wrote and recorded many American rock & roll classics including "Johnny B. Goode" and "Sweet Little Sixteen".
"Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical message to the far corners of the Earth."
One Day Without Us
Today marks 1 Day Without Us: a National Day of Action to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK, to coincide with UN World Day of Social Justice.
"For 24 hours, we are inviting migrants from inside and outside the European Union, and everyone who supports them, to celebrate the contribution that migrants make.
Crowdfunder: 'Look At Me Like That' A Short Film About Female Sexuality
The film will tell the story of a woman as she begins to examine her own sexuality and her enjoyment of sex. For the first time in her life she asks what it is about sex that she finds pleasurable. She wants to stop performing what she has been told is sexy, and instead she starts to explore what she wants and needs to feel sexy.
CARPET STAINS music video for Auf Togo by Bronwen Parker-Rhodes
After graduating from Slade School of Fine Art with a 1st, Bronwen has produced and directed films for Channel 4, BBC, Vice, Vivienne Westwood, Christies, Nowness, Hunger TV, and exhibited her films and photography worldwide.
America Ferrera's Speech at the Women's March On Washington
Thousands marched on Saturday, one day after Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th President. Actress, marcher, and daughter of Honduran immigrants America Ferrera took to the stage in Washington to speak about what a Trump presidency means for her.
Pussy Riot- Make America Great Again
As the entire world looks on to the run-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, we thought we’d share this suitably prophetic video from Pussy Riot released back in October 2016.
T2 Trainspotting
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are waiting.
Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
Bertha Dochouse screens The Promise
"A true crime story, meticulous and thrilling“
- Hamburg Morning Post
"A shocking story of love and betrayal"
- Taz
There’s nothing lashings of rain and darkened afternoons are more suited to than a true crime thriller. Especially one as compelling as this.
From Friday 13th January, Bertha Dochouse will be screening The Promise, a film focused on unravelling the international media storm created when Elizabeth Haysom and her boyfriend Jens Soering were convicted of murdering Elizabeth’s parents.
Sonia Safonova ‘Tamara’
The 2016 winner of the London Short Film Festival was a truly European bringing together of filmmaking talent - a Russian, British and Czech co-production, seeing a collaboration between the London Film School, Prague’s FAMU and the SiberiaDOC development scheme, helmed by LFS grad Sofia Safonova and filmed in her hometown of Krasnoyarsk in Southern Siberia.