This film selection presents works that attempt to expand the human body into a mix of essences, materials and symbols. Animation, the frame-by-frame working of the moving image, is used extensively as a technique here, as it allows for the overcoming of material boundaries.
• Quay Brothers, Street of Crocodiles, 20 mins, UK, 1986
• Alexander Alexeieff & Claire Parker, Night on Bald Mountain, 8 mins, 1933
• Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy, Hands: the Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex, 13 mins USA, 1957-8
• Tony Donoghue, Body Projections, 5 mins, UK, 1998
• Sarah Kathryn Arledge, Introspection, 7 mins, USA, 1941
• Chris Cunningham, Rubber Johnny, UK, 6 mins, 2006
• Jan Kounen, Gisele Girosene, 4 mins, Holland/France, 1999
• Jan Svankmajer – Food, 17 mins, Czechoslovakia/UK, 1992