Movies: Film Video Umbrella

  • 2005
    Looking for Alfred

    Looking for Alfred (2005)

    Looking for Alfred

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    Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate spec...

    Looking for Alfred
  • 2010
    Make it New John

    Make it New John (2010)

    Make it New John

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    Make it new John tells the story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it. The film deftly contrasts the DeLorean dream with its spectacular downfall during a critical period in Northe...

    Make it New John
  • 2007
    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger (2007)

    Michael Hamburger

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    Continuing her recent collection of film portraits, Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a resident of Middleton in Suffolk and great friend of W.G. Sebald....

    Michael Hamburger
  • 2020
    MASS

    MASS (2020)

    MASS

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    As we follow The Seeker, who moves between the city and the sanctuary, "MASS" carves out the intimate communal spaces and intangible signals that characterise the contemporary Black experience....

    MASS
  • 2012
    Hold Your Ground

    Hold Your Ground (2012)

    Hold Your Ground

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    Triggered by a pamphlet of instructions for pro-democracy demonstrators, called How to Protest Intelligently, Hold Your Ground dissects the semantics of the crowd, and the resulting performative speech act....

    Hold Your Ground