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“The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze” is a sci-fi meditation on the nature of human (and machine) learning. Without taking anything for granted and eschewing simple answers, the film weaves together vignettes from rural Bangladesh, high-tech MIT lab in Boston, villages of Ghana, Togo and Senegal, a basement full of supercomputer in Pittsburgh and a forested hill in Scottish Highlands. We investigate hands-on learning, manual labour, thinking through movement and the future of capitalism. We probe different forms of knowledge. We ask: what is in store for our children?

Directed by Tilda Swinton. Editing and Cinematography by Bartek Dziadosz. Produced by Lily Ford. Music by Simon Fisher Turner. Featuring: Mitch Resnick, Dennis Marechal, Julie Fies, Yuval Harari, Neil Gershenfeld, Buckmister Fuller, Lynn Hershman, Ken Robinson, David Graeber, David Biello. Duration: 85 minutes. Planned realese: February 2024.

“Europe Endless” took seven years to shoot. We started shortly after Brexit, visiting Patrick McCabe, an Irish writer who lives on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The topic of the film became clear quickly—we didn't want to complain about Brexit, fascism, and populism, but instead to celebrate Europe, its mixture of cultures and languages, and the astonishing possibilities that it offers its citizens … Europia, Utopa, Uropia. Patrick McCabe is a friend of Colin MacCabe, a film producer (including of this film) and literary critic, ex-communist, and Godard biographer.

And soon it became very much a film about Colin: about his second home Italy, the history of Eurocommunism, and his great hero Antonio Gramsci. More and more friends joined—Paul Gilroy, Akshi Singh, Ben Lerner, John Berger, Jeanne Tremsal, Lea Ypi—and, with them, stories about countries, about friendship, about utopias, about television and cinema. And about Jean-Luc-Godard. ‘The Spectre of Eurocommunism’ is the first part of a trilogy; the second is then about 1989 and the end of history, and the third about the present and the future and what utopias might work. In the end, the focus is on utopias, cinema, and the question of how to change a society with culture.

Directed by Christopher Roth. Produced by Robyn Jakeman. Duration: 3 x 75 mins approx. Planned release: September 2023