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War and Chain

Black Box 1: Space Defined (Year: 2005)

Explores various treatments of pictoral space. Features: Apollo (Tomonari Nishikawa), Aqua Gym (Simon Warwick Green), Building (Anouk De Clercq, Joris Cool, Anton Aeki), Do You Have The Shine? (Johan Thurfjell), Fade Into White #4 (Goshima Kazuhiro), The Galilean Satellites: Europa (Courtnay Hoskins), The Galilean Satellites: Io (Courtnay Hoskins), Horizontal Silence (Seoungho Cho), Momentum (Martijn Veldhoen), Papillon D'Amour (Nicolas Provost), A Room With A View In The Financial District (Carola Dertnig), Zeno's Paradox (Robert Arnold).

Black Box 2: Time Regained (Year: 2005)

Snapshots from a vanished present. Featuring: American Dreams #3 (Moira Tierney), The Bathers (Johannes Hammel), Kismet (Shelbatra Jashari), Light Is Calling (Bill Morrisson), Loretta (Jeanne Liota), Out Of Ether (Kerry A Laitala), Prologue (Bela Tarr), Restored Weekend (Gerd Gockell, Kirsten Winter), seciron_RA (reMI), Violette (Jean-Philippe Farber)

Blue Black Permanent (Country: UK; Year: 1992; Director: Margaret Tait; Writer: Margaret Tait; Stars: Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet, Sean Scanlan, Hilary Maclean, Walter Leask, Sheana Marr, Eoim MacDonald, Jimmy Moar, Liz Robertson)

Edinburgh-based photographer comes to terms with the death of her mother.

Chain (Country: US/Germany; Year: 2004; Director: Jem Cohen; Writer: Jem Cohen; Stars: Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte)

An agit-prop study of consumerism and teenage despair in the US heartland of the big sell.

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Margaret Tate: Programmes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Margaret Tate)

Collection of short films by Scottish artist and filmmaker, whose career spanned more than 30 years.

War (Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Jake Mahaffy; Writer: Jake Mahaffy; Stars: Paul Mahaffy, Jeff Clark, Andy Yurick, Dustin Bertch, Richard Kirkwood) , Official Site

Mysterious end-of-the-world black-and-white study of life after nothing.

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