Nora Attal

Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? There’s a lot of nostalgia for the nineties at the moment, especially from people too young to remember it who see the decade as a simpler, pre-internet time. Modern nostalgia often draws on corporate American-90s mall culture, but what about British culture? With I’ve Been Trying To Tell You – made to accompany the Saint Etienne album of the same name – director Alasdair McLellan evokes the era through the fog of memory. The resulting film, shot in locations from Grangemouth to Portmeirion to Southampton, is both beautiful and enveloping.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Fantastic Toiles. A fashion fun-house breaking all the sartorial rules. Where self-expression is a kaleidoscope of creativity and individuality reigns supreme. As part of their two-day residency at SHOWstudio, the otherworldly designs by the Nasir Mazhar-founded collective take centre stage in this fashion film directed by Nick Knight. From the alien to the ethereal, see work by the likes of Leo Carlton, Jawara Alleyne, and more unfold in a mesmerising dance as visionary as the collective itself.