Projects in categories: Fiction

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Earthquake! Run for the hills you fools, run for the hills! Aaaaaaaaargh!   Terror hits the West Coast as a violent quake shakes the marrow out of every bone in this festival favourite and Sundance award winner.

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Three Midlanders, pretentious Greg, unreliable Stan and ex-forces waster Ant, set themselves up in an East London flat share. As their alcohol fuelled lifestyles swing into action and personalities start to grate on each other, the cloud imposed by Stan's down-to-earth common sense girlfriend Judy, starts to loom menacingly, particularly for the zealously misanthropic Ant. Will Stan be able to have his cake and eat it too?

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A poetic and compelling 16mm film shot in London, Karachi and Lahore which encompasses five stories relating to the times of day for Muslim prayer. The work explores overlaps between time, memory and location. Connecting different places and people through images and sounds, Eating Grass contains documentary footage accompanied by a voiceover in both Urdu and English. The textures of individual voices continually slip from one language to another, creating and repeating rhythms. Meaning is not only conveyed by what is said but also by building tonal rhythmical cadences, similar musical structures to those found in jazz or Indian classical music.

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Eddie Smallcock has a problem of a supernatural nature.   Can the bizarre Dr Ivor Steamchugger and the beautiful ex bomb Mr Linda Heliotrope help?

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Emotions is a short experimental film , filmed with different coloured lenses, to portray how a person experiencing various emotions sees his surroundings.

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On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe Rose and his girlfriend Claire are about to open a bottle of champagne when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon with a child in the basket and an adult being dragged behind it has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins in with an effort to bring the balloon to safety, but in the ensuing rescue attempt a man is killed.   Witness to this tragic accident is bystander, Jed Parry. Joe and Jed exchange a passing glance - a glance which carries devastating consequences and which indelibly burns an obsession into Jed's soul. Delusional and dangerous, Jed's fixation gradually uproots Joe's life; testing the lmits of his beloved rationalism, threatening the love of Claire and driving him to the brink of murder and madness.   Based on Ian McEwan's best-selling novel of the same name, Enduring Love is a story of love, faith and suspense, and how life can change in an instant.

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Set over the course of a single day in June 1804, Beethoven arrives at the Viennese palace of his patron, Prince Lobokowitz, to hear his radical, new masterpiece, the 3rd Symphony for the first time.   With music by the acclaimed Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and starring Ian Hart.

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A fast car. Two men talking in a hotel bar. Seven questions in eight minutes. And it's 9pm on Euston Road. Figure it out.

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A curious and remote coastal research site becomes a vibrant and graphic testament to impermanence. Using a range of experimental animation techniques the film studies both physical exposure to time and weathering, and photographic exposure to light, processing chemicals and mark-making directly on to celluloid.

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Orman is having a fruitless conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr Langley everything will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his calls.   The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.

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An erotic and funny film following a young woman's journey from innocence to experience. Chloe, a naive young teacher, is looking for something, though she is not sure what.

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Fakers is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set in the London art world. Nick Edwards (Matthew Rhys) owes £50,000 and has no way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster Wright (Art Malik).  This is until he stumbles across a lost sketch by legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only worth £15,000. A plan is hatched; to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone cottons onto the fact that there's a scam going down.   Fakers is a high-spirited and overtly optimistiv romp through the territory of trust, love, ingenuity and the desperation involved in trying to survive.