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WUTI Presents: Trailblazing Women of British Cinema
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This remarkable collection brings together some of Britain’s most fearless and formally innovative filmmakers, including Margaret Tait, Maureen Blackwood, and Clio Barnard. Intimate and provocative by turn, their films are shot through with questions around identity formation...
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3 itemsThree by Béla Tarr
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In the 1980s, shortly after the death of Tarkovsky, this Hungarian chronicler of apartment-block life began his fateful collaboration with the novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Their landmark run of films together brought out the existential depth and sardonic humor in the gloom...
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MovieIda
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Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski | 82 mins | 2013
In 1962, in the Polish People’s Republic, novice nun Ida (AgataTrzebuchowska) is on the verge of taking her vows, but before she does she sets out to visit her only living relative, a promiscuous, hard-living judge (Agata Kulesza). Together they’ll e... -
MovieTransit
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Directed by Christian Petzold | 101 mins | 2018
The final stand-alone chapter in Christian Petzold’s “Love in Times of Oppressive Systems” trilogy boldly transposes Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel of the same name—about a refugee who, in a bid to escape Nazi-occupied France, adopts another man’s identit... -
MovieStrawberry Mansion
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Directed by Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney | 91 mins | 2021
In the near future of Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s psychedelic sci-fi adventure, mild-mannered Dream Auditor James Preble (played by Audley) gets in way over his head when he’s sent on assignment to the eponymous Strawberry M... -
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Fresh from the Rotterdam premiere of his new short, "Silversterschlausen" (2025), a meditation on the obscure Swiss tradition of the title, Metrograph takes stock of the work of artist and filmmaker Andrew Norman Wilson. Beneath the deadpan surfaces of these four, rigorously ...
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Red Road
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Directed by Andrea Arnold | 123 mins | 2006
Arnold took the Jury Prize at Cannes with her marvelously controlled feature debut, a tense, voyeuristic revenge tale set on a Glasgow housing estate, where a CCTV operator, Jackie (Kate Dickie), develops an obsession with a man who... -
A Family Called Abrew
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Directed by Maureen Blackwood | 41 mins | 1992
Founding member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective Maureen Blackwood crafts a poignant multi-generational portrait of a Black family with deep roots in Scotland: early in the 20th century, well before the post-World War II ... -
Blue Black Permanent
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Directed by Margaret Tait | 86 mins | 1992
While making "Aftersun" (2022), Charlotte Wells discovered a kindred spirit in her compatriot Margaret Tait: the sole feature by the medical doctor turned poet and filmmaker, "Blue Black Permanent"—in fact the first by a Scotswoman, ... -
I'm British But...
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha | 30 mins | 1990
The vivacious, Bhangra-infused debut of "Bend it Like Beckham" (2002) writer-director Gurinder Chadha takes an expansive look at what it means to be British through the eyes of second-generation migrants from Asia. From the partici... -
The Alcohol Years
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Directed by Carol Morley | 50 mins | 2000
The opening of the Haçienda in 1982 begat a pop culture boom in Manchester, and Carol Morley, then just 16 years old, quickly became one of the club’s legendary party people. But Morley herself barely remembers those drink-drenched ye... -
The Arbor
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Directed by Clio Barnard | 91 mins | 2010
Andrea Dunbar’s first play, "The Arbor"—a grimly autofictional work about a Yorkshire schoolgirl who falls pregnant, named for the council estate where she lived—premiered in London’s West End when she was just 18. By her untimely dea... -
The Body Beautiful
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Directed by Ngozi Onwurah | 24 mins | 1991
A tale of two women, a mother and a daughter, divided not just by age but by race and conventions of sexual desirability too, with the elder woman having undergone a double mastectomy and the teenager stepping into modeling. Ngozi On... -
The Heart of the Angel
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Directed by Molly Dineen | 39 mins | 1989
Molly Dineen's acclaimed documentary follows 48 hours in the life of London’s Angel tube station in the days before its refurbishment. -
The London Story
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Directed by Sally Potter | 16 mins | 1986
A highly choreographed spy spoof involving an investigation into government foreign policy malfeasance which Sally Potter stages in front of London’s most recognizable landmarks. -
The Other Side of the Underneath
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Directed by Jane Arden | 110 mins | 1972
In the chronology of female psychosis on screen, "The Other Side of the Underneath" falls between "Repulsion" (1965) and "Possession" (1981)—but this confronting work of Ken Russell-esque surrealism is hardly concerned with chronologic... -
Damnation
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Directed by Béla Tarr | 116 mins | 1987
Tarr’s first collaboration with writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai produces a quintessential Eastern bloc brew of voluptuous gloom and romantic doom that became the filmmaker’s defining style. The story of a hard-drinking man, the wicked cabar... -
Sátántangó
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Directed by Béla Tarr | 439 mins | 1994
A cinephile rite of passage, Tarr’s magnum opus immerses us in the world of about a dozen characters in a shuttered factory town who are visited by a messianic figure but are also distracted by their own eyebrow-raising personal mission... -
The Turin Horse
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Directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 155 mins | 2011
Tarr’s final feature distills the essence of his cinema with the potency of farmer’s moonshine: a cart driver and his daughter survive harsh lives amid the stark beauty of desolation. With a nearly mood-altering dila... -
Impersonator
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Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 19 mins | 2021
A Hollywood Boulevard character impersonator struggles to earn a living from photographs with tourists in its unrecognizable costume, and then returns to its LA River encampment to find the police confiscating tents. Without a... -
In the Air Tonight
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Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2020
An atmospheric standout of the Sundance and the New York Film Festival shorts programs, Andrew Norman Wilson’s "In the Air Tonight" unfurls a ghost story beneath the night skies of Michael Mann’s Los Angeles. The film recounts... -
Ode to Seekers 2012
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Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 8 mins | 2016
Ode to Seekers 2012 was initially conceived at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, New York, which contains the abandoned children’s ward that is navigated through from a mosquito’s point of view. The similarities betwee... -
Workers Leaving the Googleplex
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Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2012
"Workers Leaving the Googleplex" investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google's international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. The video documents the yellow badge-wearing ScanOps Google Books wo...
