Movies: Film Video Umbrella

Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate spec...

Make it new John tells the story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it. The film deftly contrasts the DeLorean dream with its spectacular downfall during a critical period in Northe...

As we follow The Seeker, who moves between the city and the sanctuary, "MASS" carves out the intimate communal spaces and intangible signals that characterise the contemporary Black experience....

Continuing her recent collection of film portraits, Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a resident of Middleton in Suffolk and great friend of W.G. Sebald....

Triggered by a pamphlet of instructions for pro-democracy demonstrators, called How to Protest Intelligently, Hold Your Ground dissects the semantics of the crowd, and the resulting performative speech act....