Matthew Killip

The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue between his work and cinema

John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search, he makes a different connection here on earth.

John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search, he makes a different connection here on earth.

John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search, he makes a different connection here on earth.

John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search, he makes a different connection here on earth.

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.

Short documentary about Kerry Knudsen, curator of lichens at the University of California.

Short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement.

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

A teenager pours over the obsessive notes he documented during his childhood. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festivals in 2007.

A teenager pours over the obsessive notes he documented during his childhood. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festivals in 2007.

"A short film about the love too miserable to speak its name. Goths Make Better Lovers asks why do Goths always have boyfriends? Goths, so often the victims of wry asides, mild pity or open scorn have much to teach their more colourful bretheren when it comes to affairs of the heart. Because Goths always appear to be in a relationship - and obtusely, these relationships appear to be happier than the non-Goth kind."