Jacqui Davies

The Parents' Room

A family gathers around a bed to sing a lament to their own deaths, accompanied by a blackbird.

Ray & Liz

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

Something Said

The New Cross Fire was a major tragedy in 1981 that claimed the lives of 13 young black people and was initially met with state, media and police indifference. Haunted by that history, and in the context of the recent rise of the far-right and the tragedy of Grenfell, Jay Bernard’s film Something Said, and their award winning poetry both undertake a queer exploration of black British history, starting with this particular moment in time and examining its ramifications at two scales: the larger social and political rupture that followed the fire, and the smaller, individual attempt to reconcile one's queer present and the black radical past.

Primate Cinema: Movies for Monkeys

The artist creates incredibly short and slightly pornographic films to appeal to squirrel monkeys, who have an attention span of two seconds.

DREAM

The cinematic polymath artist / actor / director, James Franco, creates a lyrical short film as the very first Dazed Visionary.

The Moon Has Its Reasons

A melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.

Tad's Nest

Girls and eels compelled to revisit, re-experience and return.

Stories on Human Rights

20 short films about human rights.