UNDER REPRESENTED IDENTITIES
Karen
Karen is an ethnographic, poetic documentary representing the daily lives of Karen people who have migrated to Northern Thailand, bordering Laos and Myanmar, and are living in the jungle, at the edge of Thai society.
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Romanians of New York
Romanians of New York is a documentary on the lives of Romanian migrants in the US at the dawn of the Trump era. The film turns the lens on immigrant communities in New York at a time of unprecedented global movement of peoples and contention surrounding migration.
Interviews with Romanian immigrants reveal their reasons for migrating, their views of the welcome they have received after Trump and the challenges they have faced. The research project was sponsored by London Middlesex University, Pembroke College (University of Oxford) and the Sandrew Travel Fund.
Interviews with Romanian immigrants reveal their reasons for migrating, their views of the welcome they have received after Trump and the challenges they have faced. The research project was sponsored by London Middlesex University, Pembroke College (University of Oxford) and the Sandrew Travel Fund.
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The Last Warriors
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Set in the thickly forested mountains of Guizhou Province among the wooden houses of the Miao people of Basha village, The Last Warriors is an episodic short film exploring the gendering of Miao warrior culture throughout the circle of life, as seen through the outsider lens of a woman filmmaker from Europe.
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Voiceless Reel
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Veteran projectionist Graham Lee recalls his experiences of the hidden world of cinema in a documentary produced by Valentina Ippolito. He recounts his cinematic experiences as part of Voiceless Reel, a documentary about 3D projection technology. The film encapsulates Graham's passion for the cinema as he talks about its history and how technology has affected the way in which we receive, consume or engage with films. Hypnotic shots of rotating reels unfold the busy workday of Graham - a 3D cinema projectionist who works at the state-of-the-art Giant Screen at Millennium Point, Birmingham.
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Voiceless Reel Goes Digital
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Since the release of Voiceless Reel in 2010, many things have changed in the realm of projection technology. The equipment featured in the film has been scrapped and replaced by two digital projectors and hard drives. Despite drastic changes in technology, Graham still works at Millennium Point. In Voiceless Reel Goes Digital, Graham discusses how his job as film projectionist has changed over the course of his 54 year career.
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Removidos Olímpicos: de Londres para o Rio de Janeiro
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Focus E15 is a campaign group formed in 2013, in London, by a group of mothers threatened with eviction from their emergency accommodation.
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A solidarity message from a Clays Lane estate resident (replaced by an empty area in the London Olympic Park, still to be occupied by a real estate development) to Vila Autódromo residents (a favela that has been removed to make way for real estate developments associated with the Rio Olympic Park).
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Lucile
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In a series of self-narrated vignettes, gay poet-librarian Lucile ushers us into the vibrant instability of her world, where, as a sufferer from manic depression, she struggles with the effects her medications have on her ability to create art and find love.
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Babies Behind Bars
Due to distribution agreements with the prison, Babies Behind Bars is not available online.
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Set in a female prison unit in the city of Rome, Babies Behind Bars tells the story of newborns and toddlers kept in the care of their imprisoned mothers. Forced to spend the first years of their lives behind prison bars, children are separated from their inmate mothers soon after their birth. To gladden children's hearts, a generous group of volunteers takes the babies out of prison every weekend for a day saturday of freedom. Filmed from the POV of the inmates and the volunteers, the film portraits the natural desire of freedom against the vital need for motherly love.
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Ladies Room
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The director spends three months filming in the toilet of a crowded Oxford pub, trying to find out whether women are tyrannies or victims when it comes to men. The film reveals its true mood by personally engaging with the women interviewed, some of which show degrees of disenchantment, bitterness and irony. Through the symbolic presence of the mirror, women’s personal voices play an active part in the narrative, while men represent the absent subject under scrutiny.
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Paths
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Based on a true story, Paths holds 72 years of love in a 90 second experimental video which pushes the boundaries of traditional cinema. This romantic super short-video tells the story of Edward, a 92 year old man who has lost the love of his life to cancer. On board of breathtaking vehicles made by the hundred-year old British car manufacturer- Morgan Motor Company, the film takes you on a metaphorical journey through the paths of life, reliving memories of a beautiful love that will last forever.
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Bye Bye Bunny
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Every year 33,000 rabbits end up abandoned and sheltered in rescues across the UK. 50 of those bunnies live at 'Fat Fluffs', a rescue centre, run by Chloe Hennegan. Bye Bye Bunny opens a small window into the life of Chloe: an aircraft engineer who has drastically changed her life to take care of 50 unwanted bunnies until they are re-homed. Chloe takes you through her emotional experience in Animal Rescue, revealing how her love for bunnies has also affected her married life.
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