From hundreds of hours of footage across a gamut of post-revolution Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory distils a haunting twenty-minute collage which highlights how subtle and resourceful Iranian film-makers have been in suggesting powerful moments of intimacy without recourse to the act of touch.

The Michael O’Pray Prize is an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. The prize is open to all early-career writers based in the UK and is free to apply to. 

Stand-up comedian, writer and director Stewart Lee asks whether comedy can ever be art in his essay on Patrick Goddard's film Animal Antics. 

Tracing the minutiae of her familiar domestic space, Heller's MU/T/T/ER (2021) considers the intimacies and intricacies of inherited language in a poetic meditation on selfhood and belonging.

In this companion work to Quarantaine (2020), Georgina Starr dissects the personal, philosophical and theoretical inspirations behind the piece.

Sutapa Biswas' Lumen premieres in a major survey exhibition of her work at BALTIC, Gateshead, 26 June 2021 - 20 March 2022, touring to: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Autograph, London; and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.