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SET Film Festival 2025 | Night 3: Reticence
20 November 2025 @ 19:15 – 23:30
Introducing Night 3 of the SET Film Festival 2025: ‘Reticence’, taking place at SET Social, Peckham on Thursday 20 November.
The programme presents seven films that employ strategies of reticence, probing the limits of the moving image. By shifting attention away from the visual, the films call on other senses to explore what can be felt rather than seen. Reticence becomes a counter-grammar through which to examine the politics of image-making, as artists evoke the sonic, haptic, and residual to open the screen into a space of speculation where fantasy and reality collide.
Through flicker, textile, archival glitches, and the slippery dreams of sleep-talking, the films embrace the quiet resilience of latent images. By inviting the viewer to project their own visions in the absence of those immediately offered by the filmmakers, their approach is one of dismantling the world in order to reassemble it otherwise.
Night 3 films include:
- The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak (2024) – Tianhui Wu
- So often returning to the same place (2025) – Maria Howard
- Les mains qui travaillent (2024) – Eva van Tongeren
- The Departing Images (2023) – Ana Edwards
- Sinkhole (2024) – Kate Liston
- Rage Against the Archive (2024) – Anshul Roy
- Blouse and Skirt (2024) – Brandon Saunders
Full programme details can be found on Eventive.
Event details
Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Doors: 7.15pm | Screening: 7.45pm prompt with a 15-min interval, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, hosted by Agnès Houghton-Boyle and Rebecka Öhrström Kann.
Tickets: £7 (concession) / £9 (general), inclusive of a printed programme
Note: Open to all. SET Social membership is not required, though members enjoy concession rates.
Follow: @set.filmfestival for programme updates.
Poster design by @ashleykinnardstudio.