Home Invasion

a film by

United Kingdom / 90' / 02/2023 / documentary

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.

“Home Invasion paints a terrifying portrait of technological ideologies and imaginaries shaping our everyday lives, staging a confrontation with the reality of machines and systems that work against us, hindering the emergence of radical futures.”
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“Home Invasion paints a terrifying portrait of technological ideologies and imaginaries shaping our everyday lives, staging a confrontation with the reality of machines and systems that work against us, hindering the emergence of radical futures.”
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Crew Festivals Press materials Press quotes

Graeme Arnfield

Biography

Graeme Arnfield is an artist filmmaker and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire, UK. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of technology, ecology and history. Research topics have included: the politics of digital networks, the distribution of ecological matter such as peat and asbestos and the adaptive circulation of global and local histories. His work has been presented worldwide including Berlinale Forum Expanded, IFFR, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, IMPAKT Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Plastik Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, LUX, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Berlinische Gallerie, Signal Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and on e-flux & Vdrome. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University.

Filmography

• Pervading Animal (30:37, 2021)
• The Phantom Menace (36:32, 2019)
• Pedigree (21:30, 2018)
• Shouting at the Ground (17:28, 2017)
• Asbestos (19:30, 2016, made in collaboration with Sasha Litvintseva)
• Colossal Cave (11:12, 2016)
• Sitting in Darkness (15:29, 2015)

Crew

Director: Graeme Arnfield
Screenplay: Graeme Arnfield
Producer: Graeme Arnfield
Sound Design: Baudoin Oosterlynck, Sarah Naylor
Editor: Graeme Arnfield

Festivals

  • Berlinale, Germany (16 – 26 February, 2023)
    Forum Expanded
  • Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, United Kingdom (3 – 5 March, 2023)
    Official Selection
  • Las Palmas de Gran Canaria IFF, Spain (14 – 23 April, 2023)
    Band A Part Competition Honorable Mention
  • Fantasia Int. Film Festival, Canada (20 July – 9 August, 2023)
    Camera Lucida Competition Won: Special Jury Mention AQCC-Camera Lucida
  • Atlàntida Film Festival, Spain (23 July – 23 August, 2023)
    Main programme
  • DokuFest – Int.l Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (4 – 12 August, 2023)
    View From the World
  • NeMaf – Seoul Int. New Media Festival, Korea (10 – 22 August, 2023)
    Long-Length Section Won: Best Long-Length Section
  • Open City Documentary Festival, United Kingdom (6 – 17 September, 2023)
    Official Selection
  • MotelX, Portugal (12 – 18 September, 2023)
    Section X
  • Tirana International Film Festival, Albania (23 – 29 September, 2023)
    Feature Documentary Category Competition
  • DokuBaku Int. Documentary Film Festival, Azerbaijan (26 September – 1 October, 2023)
  • Bucharest Int. Experimental Film Festival, Romania (26 September – 1 October, 2023)
    International Feature Film Competition
  • Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico (28 Sept – 8 October, 2023)
    Beyond the Canvas Competition
  • ToHorror Fantastic Film Festival, Italy (17 – 22 October, 2023)
    Mad Doc     Won: Antonio Margheriti Award
  • Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland (18 – 22 October, 2023)
    Official Selection
  • Imagine Film Festival, The Netherlands (25 October – 4 November, 2023)
    Official Selection
  • Videograms, Lithuania (21 – 25 November, 2023)
    Official Selection
  • DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland (30 January – 4 February, 2024)
    Techno Nightmares
  • Luxembourg City Film Festival – LuxFilmFest, Luxembourg (29 February – 10 March, 2024)
    Official Selection
  • UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Italy (28 May – 2 June, 2024)
    Official Competition
  • Film Maudit, United States (12 – 16 June, 2024)
    Feature Film Competition Won: Cocteau Award
  • Docs Ireland, Ireland (18 – 23 June, 2024)
    Official Selection

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Press materials

EPK: Click here

Stills, poster & directors photo: Click here

Dialogue list English: Click here

Trailer: Click here

Excerpts and trailer: Click here

Social media handles

https://www.graemearnfield.com
https://www.instagram.com/graemearnfield

Press quotes

“Choosing to shoot his essay film through the voyeuristic frame of a peephole, Arnfield embraces the paranoia of our times, and uses it to explore how home and neighbourhood surveillance technologies have been normalised in the name of safety and security.”
Patrick Gamble – Alt/Kino

“Arnfield invites us to peer (quite literally) through the peephole and look at how the everyday device opened the floodgates for present-day anxieties around surveillance and security.”
Dan Guthrie – Berwick Programmers Notes

“Arnfield takes his viewer on an increasingly disquieting journey through several instances of heightened individual fear that were caused by, or became entwined with, moments of technical advancement”
Review – Ben R Nicholson – Hyperallergic

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