Surviving You, Always

Upcoming British talent Morgan Quaintance’s latest film fuses together a range of disparate elements into a hypnotically unique whole by sheer willpower alone. Drawing on analogue film, photographs, stabs of music and two competing texts stacked on top of one another, Surviving You, Always is many things at once: the evocation of a drug trip of reptilian dread, a beautifully melancholy love story that is also a story of fear, paranoia and longing and an alternative history of the UK from a Black perspective that hums with painful urgency. There is no mention of politics here, but everything is in its coils. (JL)

*Following filmmaker's instructions, the voice over is not subtitled.