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The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze (2024)
Duration: 93 mins Directed by Tilda Swinton and Bartek Dziadosz What if every thought was a movement, and every movement a thought? What is intelligence and when is it artificial? Can robots dance? Can they help our children learn how to be? How are we learning, and do we ever stop? What are the values and skills that we pass on as societies through games, crafts, stories and cinema? Read more. The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016)
Duration: 87 mins Directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz The four essay films which comprise The Seasons in Quincy each take different aspects of Berger’s life in the Haute-Savoie, and combine ideas and motifs from Berger’s own work with the atmosphere of his mountain home. They are exercises in thinking in film. Read more. Watch on Curzon Home Cinema. The Trouble with Being Human These Days (2013)
Duration: 55 mins Directed by Bartek Dziadosz We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary. Funded by the University of Leeds and the BSA. Watch on Kanopy. |
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The Plastic Phoenix (2021) Duration: 19 mins Directed by Bartek Dziadosz A visit to a micro-museum of Bakelite in Dorset reveals the private world of its collector—filled with mysteries, regrets, and unfulfilled promises. Funded by the AHRC project "Mapping Museums" Watch the film. |
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Nothing Exists Until You Sell It (2021)
Duration: 35 mins Directed by Bartek Dziadosz The film examines the history of the “dark art” of consumer persuasion alongside its contemporary relevance for surveillance capitalism, cyberspace, and the online economy. It suggests that advertising’s power is more nuanced than is sometimes insinuated, although no less alarming for that. Funded by the Wellcome Trust. Read more.. Watch the film. |
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Declamations! (2025)
Duration: 22 mins Directed by Bartek Dziadosz and Matthew Taunton The film reflects on how voices come together to challenge, inspire, and transform public spaces. From powerful choruses to individual moments of expression, “Declamations” captures the resonance of people uniting in sound and purpose. Funded by the British Academy, the AHRC, the University of East Anglia and Helen Lindsay. Watch the film. |
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Close Cuts (2025)
Duration: 28 mins Directed by Bartek Dziadosz An essay film that morphs into a mixtape, with elements of scrapbook collage. It revisits the films of Agnès Varda and Lého Galibert-Laîné, tracing their fragmentary approaches to film form and exploring their paradoxical affinity with the architecture of neural networks. Watch the film. |