An experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. In an age dominated by the moving image what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from?
The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist's impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory.
Smoke is used as a device to exploit extreme contrasts of light and dark. This theme of contrast echoes throughout the work as notions of presence and absence oscillate, and redundant, toxic waste is briefly transformed into a magnificent celebration of 'being' before gently dissipating into infinite time and space.
Adam finds a mysterious roll of film. Its pictures show him committing terrible acts.
Are they evidence, or fakes? As he searches for answers, he becomes unsure of the truth.
Francis is an account of the creation of a 9-year-old 'defective' animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses.
As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world and the psychologist continues to try and interpret his actions, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character. Francis playfully addresses notions of construction and the role that language plays in interpreting, classifying and creating certain types. In an animated world populated by impressionable idiot figures, mischief-makers and oddballs with strange vocal mannerisms, Francis puts the cute but simple cartoon character into therapy for a case study of 'animated behaviour'.
When trainee doctor Catherine Thomas administers an untested cocktail of drugs to a critical coma victim, the patient is jolted into a startling 'out-of-body' state, enabling him to take revenge on the careless medics who left him in this condition. As the comatose patient's murderous supernatural powers increase, Catherine is running out of time and allies. Worse still, she has become the latest target of his unshakeable thirst for vengeance.
Ondene is beautiful, talented, and destined to study law at Oxford if she gets good A-levels. Nothing less will satisfy her domineering, mother, Hyacinth.
When a, basketball court is set up near her private school, Ondene is charmed by a charismatic, freestyle basketball player, Leon, and they decide to enter a competition. From a deprived background, Leon dreams of going to university, and needs to win to pay his way.
Ondene deceives Hyacinth to be with Leon, and romance blossoms. But just before the freestyle basketball and A-level finals, Hyacinth finds out, and splits them up. Angered by Hyacinth's interference, Ondene decides to take charge of her life but she has to make tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves.
A comedy in which three slackers meet a woman in their local bar claiming to be from the future. They suspect a prank until they stumble through a time leak showing a tragic end for them all. They spend the rest of the evening frantically trying to avoid earlier versions of them and attempting to unravel the mystery of just who is trying to kill them and why.
The story is of an innocent woman in the wrong place in the wrong time; her dignity callously violated, with her very being left to fester in an institution, until the provocation of flashbacks provide the catalytic rage for the retribution against those who did her wrong. Stars Zara Phythian, 13 Times World Martial Arts Champion.
When London's sleaziest club opens for the night, no one expects the dramatic turn of events which is going to change the lives of the performers and the regulars of the 'Gin and It' club.
Lonely burlesque dancer, Celina, is besotted with her American GI boyfriend, Eddy, a crook and womaniser. While he makes his moves on the girls that Celina think are her friends, she is out on the stage hiding her insecurities behind feather boas and sequened nipple tassels. The clubs seedy regulars, enjoy the company of performer and prostitue, Lily, who decides to take advantage of vulnerable celina as well as her delusional customer Oscar, a man who believes Lily to be his girlfriend. She will stop at nothing to stir trouble between the performers and guests at the club, while making Celina confused about her feelings towards her so called friend after Lily tries to seduce her.
Taking drastic measurements, Celina is determined to know where she stands with her GI boyfriend, but the obstacles in her way are leadling Celina to deadly consequences.
In this dark, tongue in cheek, British Horror, six friends take a holiday in the heart of the English countryside which turns into a culinary nightmare when they discover that their hosts are a sadistic family of cannibals, set on turning their guests into their next meal! It's nice to have your friends for dinner.
This is a tale about the death of Goleshovo, a forgotten town in the mountains of Bulgaria. Here, a handful of old people struggle for survival: A couple fights with their donkey. A forgetful priest leads his congregation into confusion. A woman cheers up her friends with songs. Will their children ever return?
Composed with rigorous attention to form, this observational documentary is an austere yet ultimately rewarding portrait of hope.
