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Reminiscent of the social realism found in her latest triumph Cow, Andrea Arnold’s bracing, Oscar®-winning short was shot on location in her hometown of Dartford. Packing a hefty emotional punch, the film confronts the brutality of working-class motherhood with astonishing frankness and empathy.

Once we discovered French director Yann Gonzalez’s debut, You and the Night, we had to see more. So we’ve tracked down the short he made just before his first feature—and, unsurprisingly, it is pure kink featuring a mother-daughter stripping act. Hyper-stylized, campy and sexy, the film simply pops!

A major figure in contemporary found-footage filmmaking, Tscherkassky is devoted to the sensory and tactile potential of celluloid, and committed to unveiling its artifice. Manually reworking films, frame by frame, he manipulates pre-existing images to capture the vivid fever dreams of surrealism.