23/03/2026
LUMINOX March 17th 2026
Program 19:00- 21:30
CISZECK 3 minutes
Film maker, artist, animator, Christian Krupa reflects on his father’s heritage, personal photos, colonialism, and our place in this rapidly changing world. His surveillance imagery created twenty years ago is of course ever more relevant.
YORKSHIRE DIRT 3 minutes
Yorkshire Dirt is printed entirely on soil by Edd Carr and features footage of rural practices like farming, animal agriculture, blood sports etc in Yorkshire.
FLAYERS 10 minutes
The re-introduced practice of disposing of dead live stock to support the vulture population in the Rhone Alps, France. By Hippolyte Burkhart-Uhlen
OASIS SQUARE 15 minutes
A mini documentary about how people connect to nature in Russel Square, Bloomsbury by Clive Ardagh.
JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL 34 minutes
Julia speaks of her protest - 738 days in the top of a 1000 year old redwood tree in California to prevent it from being logged. She discusses reasons for making positive action for the future, turning up, and where and how you can best make a difference. (1997) 10 mins.
BREAK
PLAT DE RESISTANCE 12 minutes
Through audio recordings taken in the field and poetic moving images, the drawn animation portrays activists who use food as a tool in their anti-consumerist struggle.
COMMON GROUND 6 mins
Annick Wolfers project documenting the filmmaker’s journey to explore the people using her local green space: Wanstead flats in East London. Here protest once kicked off the UK conservation movement.
ON HANNAH FIELDS 3 mins
A 2024 short animated documentary by Lewis Heriz that explores a community garden in Littleover, Derby, UK. The 3½-minute film showcases the garden as a place of recovery and community care, featuring visuals made with hand-processed film and plant-based, Labocine notes.
FOREST GUARDIAN 17 minutes
A documentary by Małgorzata Szyszka about the deep connection between local Tomasz Onikijuk and the unique Bialowieza Primeval Forest in Poland.
THE WATER WAS HERE 15 minutes
Filmed in 16 mm at the Wiels Marsh in Brussels. A marsh that emerged after the water table was disrupted during excavation work for a real estate project. Insects, birds, and humans coexist in this refuge, where life and magic seem to persist.