Frieze Film 2023

A group of teenagers traverse a utopian city, their journey nuanced with poetic texts and motifs borrowed from 19th-century Sicilian fairy tales

A complex surreal tapestry that blurs the boundaries between science fiction, archaeology and youthful spontaneity

With nods to noir and German Expresionism, Strafer’s film is an intriguingly wonky piece of meta-cinema

A film that champions the shipworm, a tiny marine creature that ate away at the vessels involved in the Atlantic slave trade

Notions of authenticity and performance are questioned in a distortion of the conventional frameworks of narrative cinema

An anthropological narrative of migration seen through a landscape that was frozen during the last ice age but is now jungly and equatorial

Referencing an iconic moment of frivolity in a time of revolution from art history, Kukama reinterprets a playful act into a critique of the power dynamics at play in contemporary Johannesburg

A deeply personal retrospection on the influence of US foreign policy on the decades-long civil war in Angola  

This year’s wide-ranging programme, showing at the ICA and online, ‘offers a thoughtful exploration of contemporary realities, encouraging viewers to engage critically with the world around them’

The vibrant and conflicted world of Blackpool: from nostalgic affection for the British seaside to the harrowing toll of the AIDS years on its gay scene

Embracing the English autocorrection of her Korean given name, Chung subverts the all-too-common immigrant experience of cultural erasure

다른 사람들의 기억을 자신의 삶에 주입할 수 있는 상상 속 미래

오늘날 디지털 기기가 부여 받은 유통기한 이후에 해체되는 과정의 지질학적 시간의 전후를 다룬 두 편의 영상

특정 범주의 자연 생태계를 관찰하고 비선형적인 미시적 세계관을 보여준다

실제 세계에 존재하는 육체적 존재들이 데이터로 축소되어 새로운 정체성을 추적한다