So kindly to the cold stone is the fire…

Heroic and humdrum, a woman’s life told in nine chapters by an unnamed female narrator. “She lives where she is not. Not what. Not careful.” The woman is called Ida. The sentences are short - they are simple, but the meaning is not. They were written by Gertrude Stein in her novel Ida from 1941.

A south London odyssey following Tobias, who sells counterfeit tobacco to fund his mother's return to Jamaica. The city reveals spectres of his community's history and an uncertain future.

A gallery of fragile, self-obsessed characters found in a night club. They are like cut flowers or pinned butterflies and they must pay for their capricious beauty with loneliness and never-ending anxiety about their self-image.

The anthropologist Ger Duijzings reads his diary from wartime Yugoslavia (1992) while walking the streets of London. His diary entries are echoed and confronted by images of London. The film was shot with seven cameras in real-time and a single continuous take.

a 2023 song by Rastko Novaković