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30 March 2025
Maltings Cinema at the Barracks

Stuart Marshall and AIDS Video Activism 1.0 & 2.0

Part one of BFMAF Propositions programme looking at the work of artist, educator and activist Stuart Marshall. Stuart’s work challenged misrepresentations of homosexuality during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, subverting and critiquing the prevailing language of television and news media.

Stuart Marshall
Canada United Kingdom
25 min
Stuart Marshall
Canada United Kingdom
10 min

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68 mins
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30 March 2025
Maltings Main House

nobody’s word • Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya • A Thousand Waves Away • Language of the Entrails

A programme of new cinema inspired by the hallucinogenic properties of flowers, archival dissonance, and tales of a grumpy entity who talked only because it could not growl.

Camara Taylor
Barbados Jamaica United Kingdom
15 min
Malena Szlam
Australia Canada
20 min
Helena Wittmann
Germany
10 min
Luciana Decker Orozco
Bolivia United States
12 min

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88 mins
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