Film
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK, returns for its 23rd year this July. Founded in 1998, LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express...
PVTV Fringe Flicks: Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising + Experimental Short Films
Join us for another wild night of strange, subversive, and absurd cinema as Fringe Flicks returns to DoES Liverpool. Our headline film is Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising (1972) – a psychedelic invocation of myth and magic, filled with occult symbolism, hypnotic imagery, and a legendary score by Bobby Beausoleil. Alongside it, we’re screening a curated selection of experimental short films from around the world, packed with mind-bending visuals, offbeat humour, and stories that...
DDFI40: Films @ FACT
Part One: DaDa Makes Music 6pm – 6.45pm Join us to celebrate 10 years of the DaDa Ensemble project and wider music programme. DaDa have commissioned a new short film looking at the work of the DaDa Ensemble over the years. The film features clips from past performances and interviews with the young musicians, the...
DDFI40: Hand Ships Sail
Launching DDFI40 on International Women’s Day, ‘Hand Ships Sail’ is a poetic conversation in British Sign Language (BSL) – the vital, visual and versatile language of British deaf communities. Two deaf women share their dreams for the future as they look out over the night sky. Intriguing and sensual, the projected artwork begins with giant...
Abi Palmer: Slime Mother
The final screening of the season will be Abi Palmer’s Slime Mother. The film combines spoken word with languorous panning shots of slugs sliding, twisting and suspending from branches. A narrator’s voice guides us through a ‘slug-god world’, recounting memories of a childhood spent hating slugs, pouring salt and flicking them away, to a new...
PVTV Fringe Flicks: David Lynch’s The Grandmother + Short Films
Join us for a night of bold, surreal cinema as Fringe Flicks returns with a special screening of David Lynch’s The Grandmother (1970). This haunting mix of live-action and animation delves into themes of isolation, trauma, and solace, through Lynch’s signature dreamlike lens. When: Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:30 PM Where: DoES Liverpool, 1st Floor, The Tapestry, 68-76...
But Does It Speak?
But Does it Speak? is a new season featuring artists and writers who use poetry, fiction, experimental writing and speech to establish and alter visual worlds. Join us for three film screenings in the gallery, workshops, events and more. Stay tuned as we announce the incredible artists we’re working with this season.
Subterranean Elevator
Subterranean Elevator has been conceived by artist Di Mainstone, and developed with a team of inter-disciplinary specialists. The installation invites intrepid visitors to explore the inner worlds of soil and the subconscious mind. On entering a dark, elevator-shaped environment, they will feel a soft earth-like substance beneath their feet, where they can stand, sit, or...
