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Julie is a survivor of psychiatry, in the pursuit of the autonomy to redefine her present and reinvent her future in spite of the biomedical model who deemed her to be “80% mentally disabled.” Could her childhood trauma and unusual experiences be grounds for identity and culture, resistance and meaning?
Julie on line is directed by Mia Ma.
Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells tells the story of his abandoned film. The film is a lesson in creative frustration and a hilarious critique of a genre at saturation point.
A biennial festival of new ideas. Bringing together the city's creative community and its academic minds through exhibitions, talks, screenings, performances and more. Stay tuned for dates and details for the next Festival of the Mind in autumn 2026.
The origin of the term ‘gaslighting’ dates back well before the internet made it commonplace. This series of talks and screenings in the Showroom's Film Studies programme will look at four films from the 1940s in this rich vein of murder melodramas.
An artist-filmmaker investigating the histories of post-industrial cities and amplifying voices that have traditionally been silenced.
