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Delete Beach 2016

British artist and filmmaker Phil Collins uses photography and video to comment on the fluidity of popular culture and its ability to transcend language, social status and locality.

In the experimental short film Delete Beach, Collins engages with the cinematic genre of anime to explore themes relating to social alienation, contemporary technology, and cultural revolution. The film takes place in a dystopian future where carbon-based energy is illegal and follows a young schoolgirl as she joins an anti-capitalist resistance group in an attempt to overthrow a totalitarian regime.

With character design by renowned animation director Marisuke Eguchi and a new original soundtrack by British musician and composer Micas Levi (aka ‘Michachu’), Delete Beach eerily prophesises the future of the modern oil industry, forewarning of the societal consequences of an overdependence on carbon fuels.

Ages 15+ | Contains depictions of drug use and adult themes

7 minutes | Ages 15+ | Contains depictions of drug use and adult themes

Drawing Restraint 9 2005

Drawing Restraint 9 will screen from a 35mm print.

American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney works across the disciplines of sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance to create films and installations that merge mythology, symbolism, and the body to challenge ideas of failure and conflict.

Set on board a Japanese whaling ship, the feature film Drawing Restraint 9 (whose title is a continuation of an ongoing series of works by Barney that challenge the limits of the human form), features Barney and his then partner, musician Björk, as two visitors who are slowly transformed into sea creatures as they participate in a ritualistic marriage ceremony.

As is characteristic of Barney’s films, including the pivotal film series The Cremaster Cycle 1994–2002, the film explores themes of transformation and sacrifice to examine and interrogate the relationship between humans and the natural world. A visual spectacle that moves effortlessly between beauty and gore, the intricate costumes, set design and special effects create an immersive cinematic world, further enhanced by the film’s haunting soundtrack, composed by Bjork.

135 minutes | MA15+ | Contains infrequent strong disturbing imagery