Hope Strickland's FVU-commissioned film a river holds a perfect memory features at BIFF on Saturday 30th August in a special screening at 2pm.

a river holds a perfect memory considers the interrelation of water, memory and labour and plays with techniques of refusal, errantry and repetition. Through the divergent and overlapping temporalities of working across archival footage, newly shot 16mm and LIDAR scans, the film uses water to track the impact of the industrial revolution and labour migration upon supposedly disparate communities.

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Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Touchstones Rochdale with support from HOME, Manchester. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.