STST Film Club X Dream Sequence #2
Thursday, May 1, 2025 · 7 - 9.30pm GMT
Staffordshire St
49 Staffordshire St London SE15 5TJ
Dream Sequence presents an evening of contemporary experimental short films from exciting filmmakers from around the world.
This carefully curated programme features works that challenge conventional cinematic and narrative forms, embracing visual art as a central mode of expression. As non-narrative films, these works explore the materiality of film itself, pushing the boundaries of the medium through innovative filmmaking techniques and unconventional aesthetics.
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¡PíFIES! (Ignacio Tamarit, 2004)
Agentina - 3’57”
“¡PíFIES! (from the Spanish slang “mistake”) is the kind of film I would like to see when I screen home movies, but that I never end up finding. From clippings of my own collection of home-movies, I built a rhythmic collage where at first the focus was placed on the films’ technical problems: violent pans, out of focus, insane zooms, abrupt cuts or what would have been discarded by the filmmaker instead of being kept in the final cut. However, ¡PíFIES! ends up being an eulogy to the home movie filmmaking, to the construction of these amateur handmade films, to the filmmakers who shoot their families, their exotic trips and their daily lives so that they can be remembered.”
Ignacio Tamarit is a filmmaker, teacher and musician. He studied at the Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica and at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has given film workshops at the Big Sur Contemporary Art Gallery, C3 Centro Cultural de la Ciencia y Lumiton Museo del Cine Usina Audiovisual, where he also works as an archivist, programmer and film curator.
Films To Break Projectors (Tim Grabham, 2016)
UK - 5’06”
Films to Break Projectors glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.
Tim Grabham (AKA iloobia) is a multidisciplinary artist who has independently produced still and moving image work for over 30 years, with a tendency toward experimental, handmade, and unconventional approaches. Comprising short film, animation, photography, and installation, as well as documentary, expanded documentary, and long-form features, his work has been presented internationally at cinemas, festivals, on TV, online, and in galleries. His work has a particular focus on the manipulation of archive and obsolete media formats, the reconfiguration of abandoned, decaying, and orphaned celluloid material, and hand-worked, bespoke analogue processes.
Revenants: Compound Horizons (Sapphire Goss, 2024)
UK - 9’00”
Strange worlds slowly emerge from chemical chance; landscapes excavated from emulsion. The edges of the frame make horizons, punched holes are suns or moons, static and grain bleeds into light on water into stars, chemicals form into clouds. These are spectres of light and time: one foot in the material world, one in the ether. The sound is made using field recordings blended with samples from 16mm educational films, warping and distorting with the optical strip; material and form merging in and out with each other and becoming indistinguishable. This work explores and shapes the terrain of the celluloid.
Sapphire Goss is a UK-based artist working with moving image, photography, and other lens-based media. Her work explores the fragility of time, place, and perception through analogue film, sound, and material experimentation, creating shimmering, otherworldly imagery—an “analogue uncanny” where light, time, and chemicals collide. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Barbican (London), ArtScience (Singapore), Tate Exchange (London), By Art Matters (Hangzhou), and Maysles Centre (New York). Goss has received numerous commissions and awards.
eRoding (Will De Ritter, 2024)
UK - 1’44”
An ongoing work exploring the impact of chemical pollutants, found in water foraged from the River Roding, on celluloid film.
Film souping is the process of altering the chemical properties of a film by soaking it in liquid(s) prior to development. This
film was souped, for varying amounts of time, in water taken from the River Roding, which has the highest level of PFAS pollution of any river in England.
Will De Ritter is a London-based filmmaker. He works with celluloid film and photochemicals to produce films that tread a fine line between experimental and genre cinema. He is interested in using obsolete photographic technology to achieve effects that are digitally unachievable, while also developing sustainable solutions for photographic practices. De Ritter’s most recent film, She Culls Seagulls, has been shortlisted for the FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2025.
Virage (Farzin Farzaneh, 2005)
Canada - 5’46”
A film about turning. Shot in 16mm black and white. The frames were printed on paper of various colours and textures, hand-painted and reshot in 35mm. The soundtrack consists of recordings of ordinary household sounds that were manipulated and mixed together.
Farzin Farzaneh is a Montreal-based filmmaker and visual artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, filmmaking, and photography. His work has been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally. He has taught art and filmmaking at all educational levels and continues to explore a broad range of techniques and styles in his work.
Protest (Nicci Haynes, 2023)
Australia - 7’09”
A film about protests using footage collected by the filmmaker over several years. The images in the film were laser-etched into hand-coloured 16mm film using a laser cutter.
Nicci Haynes is an Australia-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, printmaking, video, and performance. Her work explores themes of communication, movement, and the body, often through performative and gestural mark-making. She teaches at the Australian National University and is active in the Canberra arts community, including Megalo Print Studio. Haynes has received several awards, including the M16 Drawing Prize and a Canberra Critics Circle award.
Memories of the Shoreline, 1-4 (Chloe Charlon, 2021)
UK - 4’44”
Four films that transverse the coast line, offering mini studies of marine and flora life, whose images are composed frame-by-frame in the camera whilst filming.
The individual titles of the films are: Restless Quarrels Between Closest Companions, The Mutterings of Maritime Lichen, Chlorophyll Lessons on Rays and Rhythm, and Those Who Wait Up at Night.
Chloe Charlton is a Glasgow-based moving image artist and recipient of Creative Scotland’s Nurturing Talent – Time to Shine Fund. Her work has screened at Oberwelt Gallery (Stuttgart), Radiophrenia, and CCA Glasgow. Rooted in an ecological perspective, her films explore the materiality of the geological world through the camera’s eye, offering archaeological traces of the present that question the extractive forces of the Anthropocene.
Immersio (Sophie Bouloux, 2024)
France - 4’45”
"Caelum mergens sidera"
A sonic and visual experience exploring duality. Immersio evokes light and shadow, the conscious and the unconscious, the blurring of the senses in a chaotic world, and the finitude of being.
Sophie Bouloux (aka Sophie.B) is a French artist and director working across concrete poetry, photography, video, experimental cinema, and sound (under the name Cut-Up). Her practice blends poetry and experimentation to create intimate, unconventional worlds. She was guest of honour at Resistenza Analogica (2007) and OFNI (2016), and in 2019, a solo exhibition of her work was held at the Edmond Rostand Media Library in Paris. Her work has screened internationally.
Film Loop 31: Shinsendo & Film Loop 34: Ryoanji (Michael Lyons, 2016-2017)
Japan - 1’30” / Japan - 1’30”
These short films are part of an ongoing series of digital loops based on segments of hand-processed 16mm film. Various techniques are used to create the loops: patterned tape is attached to clear leader; 16mm film is used in 35mm and medium format cameras; and expired film is hand-processed using household ingredients such as instant coffee and powdered green tea.
Michael Lyons (Canada/Scotland) is a researcher and artist based in Kyoto, Japan. His practice primarily involves experimenting with the materiality of film, exploring its physical and chemical possibilities. He co-founded the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression and is active as both a filmmaker and sound artist. He is currently Professor of Image Arts and Sciences at Ritsumeikan University.
An Ode to 10k Steps (Sharon Anatole, 2025)
UK - 1’46”
An Ode to 10k Steps is an experimental micro-short filmed on a walk from Archway to Tottenham Court Road. Shot during a period of personal stagnation, it reflects on how movement through the city can restore a sense of vitality. The film explores the shift from space to place—where once-ordinary streets become meaningful through memory, culture, and emotional connection.
Sharon Anatole is a visual anthropologist who unpicks the dense interconnections between technology and identity. Through video works that queer 'content', she draws attention to our often ignored positionality online.