Movies: The Elephant Trust

  • 2008
    Trail of the Spider

    Trail of the Spider (2008)

    Trail of the Spider

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    Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s p...

    Trail of the Spider
  • 2020
    On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here

    On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here (2020)

    On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here

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    From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of invisible nuclear power, Kazakhstan is here captured in fragments. A fake observational film, but a genui...

    On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here
  • 2021
    Wendy

    Wendy (2021)

    Wendy

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    ‘Wendy’ is a film response to the work of composer, electronic music innovator and polymath, Wendy Carlos. The work orbits a duet rehearsal for four hands on one piano. Together, Frances Scott and Chu-Li Shewring learn to play ‘Timesteps’, transcribe...

    Wendy
  • 2019
    Habitat 2190

    Habitat 2190 (2019)

    Habitat 2190

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    Habitat 2190 follows the construction of the nature reserve Fort Vert at the site of the so-called “Jungle”, the former refugee camp in Calais, France, addressing the ways in which an imagination of nature is weaponised in the governing of borders, i...

    Habitat 2190