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- Two English stage actors, Hugo and Jago, have an artistic difference while rehearsing a radio play. This evolves rapidly into a huge fracas, and spills onto a West End side street. Naturally, this draws a horde or passersby, including an American bystander, who elects to be the peacemaker. Things soon deteriorate from the scholarly to the brutal, even physical, and long held personal and societal prejudices surface. Class, racial origins, and history are harshly debated. Then Hugo, the posh one, proclaims his African ancestry, which bombshell causes a puzzled Jago to accost an African Traffic warden for verification, thus opening a third front to his quarrel with Hugo. There is a reversal of roles, with the posh Hugo championing liberal causes, the working class Jago becoming more and more entrenched as a xenophobe, and the traffic warden boasting an exemplary academic and social pedigree, despite his job. Unbeknownst to Jago, however, this entire 'symposium' is meant either to be his Road to Damascus or ruin. This fast paced drama is set in the 2010s. It utilises a pseudo Shakespearian language that enables exquisite witticism and sarcasm, while offering a crucial historical perspective. It also allows the characters to transcend certain social boundaries, while addressing the unspoken tensions and subtensions undermining harmony in a cosmopolitan United Kingdom. The Symposium is a art house film project written and directed by Ghanaian poet and filmmaker Ishmael Annobil. It follows in the footsteps of his magic realist film, 'Salamander', which is currently in post-production. Like all his other film, Annobil designed Symposium to be shot in public, with multiple cameras, and with some amount of spectator participation.
- Mark Astronaut is a musician. Founder of the Astronauts in 1977, he has been making music ever since. He is one of the most critically acclaimed lyricists of his time - spawning from the DIY punk scene of 1970's London, touring with Zounds and The Mob, even supporting Dire Straits, but his content, wit and musical diversity meant he was always on the edge of achieving commercial success. Autumn Days takes an in depth look at the life and mind of one of Britain's greatest lyricists, how he copes with day to day life, his opinions of the modern world and the timeless nature he embodies. Live performance, interviews and surreal moments come together to try to capture the spirit of Mark Astronaut.
- Hornsleth: Product of Love is the definitive documentary about the controversial Danish-Scot conceptual artist, Kristian Von Hornsleth, the most understood counter-cultural artist of his generation.
- In the Presence of Awe The Transvangarde is a film about the international movement of artists, The Transvangarde, founded by John Polka Allen, the American Renaissance man and designer of the Biosphere 2.
- Kenji Yoshida - Artist of the Soul is an in-depth profile of the 83 year-old former Kamikaze pilot and Avant Garde artist, Kenji Yoshida.
- Linda Karshan: Choreographing the Page is a definitive documentary about groundbreaking American artist Linda Karshan
- The first Covid-19 lock-down in New York invoked artist Linda Karshan's memory of her father's polio affliction in the 50s epidemic, inspiring her to "push back" by producing her most prolific body of work to date.