A film poem exploring the destructive power of our popular media, the constraints it places on what we consider beautiful and the damage caused to those who identify with the endless images of physical perfection.
The film evolves from the practice of film maker Barry Hale and dancer/choreographer Jane Mulchrone. Within the space time dynamics of video feedback, tiny actions can clearly be seen to generate instant and massive change.
An animation film, using drawings, diagrams, scribbles, text and light. The intention is to celebrate the raw material of graphic and visual communication.
Developed from a collaboration between dancer Pete Shenton and film maker Laura Smith, Shaker is a tongue-in-cheek mix of dance and comedy, in which a man tries to capture the heart of a female choreographer, who's only wish is to disappear.
Inspired by sculptor Bill Ming's life-size wood carvings of human figures, the film takes its subject from the idea of masks, the concealment of what lies behind them and the revealing of layers within human identity.
Will takes its subject from superstitions and the idea of 'reversal' or making the unknown safe. It uses stark images drawn from superstitions and performance by artist Caroline Locke.
Sex is a currency. It commands power and it can instil fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past, finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak.
A helpless pawn in one of Norris' narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston, Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which there seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope.
When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris' blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbours, Max and Nikki, his new friends in the city.
With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside.
With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realise a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotions flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki, a beautiful woman fascinated by Tom's past.
Yet how long can this last with Dunston desperate to hunt down Tom before he exposes the corruption? It's only a matter of time before his deadly past catches up with him again. But just how much is Tom willing to sacrifice?
Caitlin is a young freelance photographer living in an oppressive and impersonal city. Following a series of events, both economic and spiritual, that result in a global recession and subsequent mass unemployment, Caitlin watches as the people around her attempt to come to terms with living a life that no longer seems safe or familiar.
At first Caitlin sets out to record the everyday people affected by the crash, whose plight is being almost completely ignored by the mass media, who seem interested in reporting nothing but feel-good propaganda and help perpetuate what amounts to a news blackout.
With the crisis continuing to grow, many turn to religious cults that recommend increasingly violent action against the people they believe to be responsible for the global recession.
As lawlessness descends upon the city, what remains of the established orders begins a brutal crack down and Caitlin is forced to take drastic action in order to save herself.
Based on the filmmaker's collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life. The characters demonstrate their longings as we witness their thwarted lives and strategies for survival eg a woman who can't stop jogging, a man obsessed with Claudia Schiffer.
A sleepy seaside town, Rachel and Mike are camping on the outskirts of town. Nearby in her campervan is young Israeli Maya and her sister Dannie. As Rachel pursues the sixteen year old son she abandoned years ago, Mike pursues Dannie. Relationships are tested to breaking point.
Conceptual artist Ryan Exidore attempts the greatest performance of his life. Having been caught with a truck load of drugs he must use the art of spin to convince a high court jury that they were all for personal consumption.
Fallen Dreams is the first feature from four-time award winning shorts director, Daniel Samray.
It is about a group of friends living in a big private building who have been given twenty-four hours to vacate the property.
Karen is seven months pregnant. Her boyfriend, Ian, is currently out of work and is trying to get his life back in order before the baby is born. However, without a fixed abode he is finding it hard to find a job.
Arthur is Ian's best friend who is having an affair with Karen. He thinks the baby she is carrying is his and not Ian's.
Alice is going out with Trevor who is obsessed and addicted to sex with multiple partners and is turned on only by girls who are currently seeing someone else.
Jim is an old man living in the basement of the property with a lot of hatred for the young guys living upstairs.
In the tension of the last day, all their relationships are tested to a point where they get involved in a homicide.
