Focus Part 2
A Room with a View
42 mins
The section A Room with a View maps the prolongation of places into consciousness. External topographies confound with fragile interiorities. The outside folds into the self. The psyche recesses into the hallways of the house. The house is a nest for imagining, a refuge for dreaming, a shelter for becoming. There is a house that contains us and a house that is contained in us.
The celluloid endures the continuum and ruptures between geometrical spaces and inhabited spaces - one space spills, is swallowed, is deformed and reformed by the other. With these five films of Peter Todd, one ought to accept solitude, to embrace, even if only momentarily, a wandering around enchanted rooms. Todd’s films demonstrate so tenderly that the space can be poetry.
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Peter Todd is an English filmmaker and curator, often working on collaborative projects with other artists and filmmakers, whose films tenderly reveal experience as such, showing the inexhaustibly rich potentiality of everyday life. His cinema begins with the refusal of a position of knowledge of the world, with an abandonment of signification, in order to return to things in themselves—to brute perceptual experience—rediscovering a simple contact with lived time and lived spaces.
The filmwork of Peter Todd asks us to inhabit a particular attentiveness to the everyday, renewing our modes of being in immediacy and our ways of sharing presence with the inanimate, as entering these cinematic domains—an archive of domestic impressions and chance encounters with objects—means revisiting our direct engagement with the world and our responsiveness to the familiar.
Peter Todd
Part 2
A Room with a View
42 mins The section A Room with a View maps the prolongation of places into consciousness. External topographies confound with fragile interiorities. The outside folds into the self. The psyche recesses into the hallways of the house. The house is a nest for imagining, a refuge for dreaming, a shelter for becoming. There is a house that contains us and a house that is contained in us.
The celluloid endures the continuum and ruptures between geometrical spaces and inhabited spaces - one space spills, is swallowed, is deformed and reformed by the other. With these five films of Peter Todd, one ought to accept solitude, to embrace, even if only momentarily, a wandering around enchanted rooms. Todd’s films demonstrate so tenderly that the space can be poetry.
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Peter Todd is an English filmmaker and curator, often working on collaborative projects with other artists and filmmakers, whose films tenderly reveal experience as such, showing the inexhaustibly rich potentiality of everyday life. His cinema begins with the refusal of a position of knowledge of the world, with an abandonment of signification, in order to return to things in themselves—to brute perceptual experience—rediscovering a simple contact with lived time and lived spaces.
The filmwork of Peter Todd asks us to inhabit a particular attentiveness to the everyday, renewing our modes of being in immediacy and our ways of sharing presence with the inanimate, as entering these cinematic domains—an archive of domestic impressions and chance encounters with objects—means revisiting our direct engagement with the world and our responsiveness to the familiar.
Fri 29 May
19:00 - 20:30 / ACUD KINOROOM WINDOW SEA SKY
UK, 2014, 3’ 00”, 16mm, silent
A contemplation of the dialectics of here and there, of inside and outside. The gaze moves between interior and exterior, where to be here already implies being there. Space becomes reversible, and perception unfolds through this continuous exchange.
PILLOW BOWL ROSE TREE
UK, 2023, 16’ 00”, 16mm, silent, DCP
Domestic interiors and surrounding landscapes intermingle. Objects, rooms, and outdoor spaces form a shifting continuum where perception drifts between intimacy and openness, tracing the passage of time through everyday environments.
WE SAW
UK, 2009, 4’ 00”, 16mm, silent
Fragments of observation emerge through shared perception. The film unfolds as a quiet record of looking, where the act of seeing becomes both collective and unstable.
THREE FILMS FROM THE ROOM
UK, 2015, 10’ 00”, 16mm, silent
A movement between domestic and institutional spaces: two kitchens and a room at Morley College. The film traces spatial correspondences, where interiors resonate across distance and context.
UNTITLED
UK, 2012, 9’ 00”, 16mm, silent
A study of the ambiguous regions of the human, suspended between visibility and concealment, between private and public existence. The image remains partially withheld, resisting full disclosure.
SCHEDULE 2026
Wed 27
19.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #1
Spacing Time
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Experimental
Film Treasures
– Pt.1
Thu 28
16:00 / ACUD KINO
Experimental
Film Treasures
– Pt.2
18.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #2
Souvenirs
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Todd
– Pt.1
Fri 29
16.30 / ACUD KINO
Selection #3
Living Skin
19:00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Todd
– Pt.2
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Moucle Blackout
Sat 30
10.00 / ACUD ROOFTOP
Workshop
Cécile Fontaine
18.30 / ACUD KINO
Selection #4
Sensuous Light
21.00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Cécile Fontaine
– Pt.1
Sun 31
10.00 / ACUD ROOFTOP
Workshop
Cécile Fontaine
17.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #5
Grayscale
19.00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Cécile Fontaine
– Pt.2
21.30 / ACUD CLUB
Expanded Cinema
Jan Kulka