Programme Details
Morgan Quaintance: Available Light (16mm to digital) 32 mins
‘Available Light‘ explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the ‘Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum‘ in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters of that city and London, a productive dialectic opens between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities. By combining his trademark immersive sound design with impressionistic images and abstractions, Quaintance crafts an austere, oneiric and subtly affecting portrait of residential precarity.
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer with interests in the human condition, the cultic milieu, counterculture, ethnography, the built environment, Afro-Caribbean, African American, East Asian and British histories as mainstays throughout his work. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. He has received multiple awards for his work including the 2025 Jarman Award.
Katie Davies: Divided by Law (film) 26 mins
Divided by Law,’ bears witness to binational families and couples trying to keep a home, family life and place of belonging in todays UK hostile immigration environment. From multiple locations across the world, we hear personal accounts of partners and children separated for prolonged periods, some never united, as they navigate their way through the UK family immigration regulations, with distressing consequences. Captured before Covid, in the lead up to Brexit and now revised under Labour’s rebranding as the ‘compliant environment’, the film incorporates the Government’s ‘Restoring Control’, 2025 white paper, setting out further tightening of rules on family rights; “to ensure people are of the good character we expect”. The film has English subtitles.
Katie Davies is a moving image artist and documentary filmmaker based in Bristol. She works with groups and communities creating single and multiple screen installations, using 16mm film and moving image work to explore the construction of collective identities. Nationalism and violence often form a central critique for her projects, focusing upon identities which are dictated by the state; their agency to self-identify manipulated between political agendas and media discourse. Katie has exhibited nationally and internationally including FACT Liverpool, Kassel Dokfest, Bratislava International Film Festival and Oberhausen International Film Festival.
Louisa Fairclough: Rattling against the frets (spoken word + live sound) 20 mins
This spoken word performance, with Paddy Farr on guitar, draws from a written testimony in which Louisa Fairclough has endeavoured to convey the distinct logic of her thought processes and the associations she was making during a lengthy psychosis. The monologue is non-chronological and echoes her fragmented memories of that time. As Louisa speaks, the glissando guitar is gradually detuned.
Rattling against the Frets is part of a wider auto-ethnographic project exploring Louisa’s lived experience of psychosis which has been funded by an Arts Council England DYCP award. Louisa’s solo show, Mental Falls, was at Danielle Arnaud Gallery (2024) and MIRROR Arts University Plymouth (2025). To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, Louisa curated Welcome to my World, a weekend programme at the Arnolfini in Bristol in May 2025. Louisa is a member of BEEF.
Laura Phillips: Dwelling – in progress (16mm + reading) 15 mins
A new expanded performance reading that considers how dwelling, waiting, and work shape space through distinct rhythms of attention – memory, suspension, and intention – life as a form of proto-cinema, where framing, duration, and montage are already at play.
Laura Phillips is an artist working across 16mm photochemical processes, field recordings, and digital imagery. Situated at the intersection of visual music, expanded film, and performance, her practice explores obsolescence, precarity, and collective histories. Through salvaging and reworking analogue and digital media, she engages with ideas of the commons, ecology, and information infrastructures. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and performed throughout the UK and internationally, and is held in the collection of Arts Council England. She is a recent recipient of the British School at Rome Creative Wales Fellowship, and is a member of BEEF.
