Bja Samuel

Directing

Bja Samuel

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

BJA Samuel is a British writer, filmmaker and illustrator whose work spans fiction, experimental cinema, visual storytelling and explorations of art, culture and history. As a writer, Samuel creates darkly imaginative fiction concerned with grief, morality, human desire and violence, often combining psychological and philosophical ideas with surreal or unsettling imagery. As a filmmaker, BJA Samuel works primarily with archival and found footage, creating experimental documentaries and visual essays from interviews, television material, educational films, early cinema and other fragments of the moving-image archive. His films explore the lives and ideas of writers, artists and thinkers, wh…

Known for

The Eternal Silence poster
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An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

The Eternal Silence

2026

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick poster
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A documentary exploring the ideas of Philip K. Dick, whose work continually questioned the nature of reality, identity and the boundaries between the authentic and the counterfeit. Through Dick’s own voice, archival interviews, television appearances and speeches, the film journeys through his visions of alternate realities, paranoia and revelation.

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick

2026

J.G. Ballard:  Dreams, Violence & Desire poster
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This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and provocative writers of the 20th century.

J.G. Ballard: Dreams, Violence & Desire

2026

The Magic Lantern poster
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The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Segundo de Chomón, and Émile Cohl.

The Magic Lantern

2026

Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares poster
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The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting its collective mind and giving rise to dreams and nightmares. PARANOIA CITY is a feature-length (54min) archival essay film exploring the Atomic Age through nuclear test footage, government civil defence films, Cold War propaganda, and 1950s science fiction cinema.

Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares

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Earth Symphony poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Earth Symphony

2020

Behind the camera

The Eternal Silence poster
NR

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

The Eternal Silence

2026

The Eternal Silence poster
NR

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

The Eternal Silence

2026

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick poster
NR

A documentary exploring the ideas of Philip K. Dick, whose work continually questioned the nature of reality, identity and the boundaries between the authentic and the counterfeit. Through Dick’s own voice, archival interviews, television appearances and speeches, the film journeys through his visions of alternate realities, paranoia and revelation.

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick

2026

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick poster
NR

A documentary exploring the ideas of Philip K. Dick, whose work continually questioned the nature of reality, identity and the boundaries between the authentic and the counterfeit. Through Dick’s own voice, archival interviews, television appearances and speeches, the film journeys through his visions of alternate realities, paranoia and revelation.

The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick

2026

J.G. Ballard:  Dreams, Violence & Desire poster
NR

This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and provocative writers of the 20th century.

J.G. Ballard: Dreams, Violence & Desire

2026

J.G. Ballard:  Dreams, Violence & Desire poster
NR

This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and provocative writers of the 20th century.

J.G. Ballard: Dreams, Violence & Desire

2026

The Magic Lantern poster
NR

The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Segundo de Chomón, and Émile Cohl.

The Magic Lantern

2026

The Magic Lantern poster
NR

The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Segundo de Chomón, and Émile Cohl.

The Magic Lantern

2026

Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares poster
NR

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting its collective mind and giving rise to dreams and nightmares. PARANOIA CITY is a feature-length (54min) archival essay film exploring the Atomic Age through nuclear test footage, government civil defence films, Cold War propaganda, and 1950s science fiction cinema.

Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares

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Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares poster
NR

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting its collective mind and giving rise to dreams and nightmares. PARANOIA CITY is a feature-length (54min) archival essay film exploring the Atomic Age through nuclear test footage, government civil defence films, Cold War propaganda, and 1950s science fiction cinema.

Paranoia City: Atomic Dreams & Cold War Nightmares

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Earth Symphony poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Earth Symphony

2020