A woman kills her fears and past to be reborn as her true self.
"I am a coward. I look in the mirror and I see the person who is afraid. I look her in the eyes, I say nothing. Just look. She says nothing back. Her eyes have the colour of fear. My fear has almost consumed her eyes. I feel all rotten with a big hole inside of me and this hole is filled to the top with old heavy fears. They are soaking there."
A tribute to British-French-Polish avant-garde artists Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson.
The director revisits the work of the Themersons, some 15 years after TRACES, her previous film about the couple - collecting new memories and featuring contributions from Michael Horowitz, Barbara Right, Nick Wadley.
Charting the epic journey of one of the most influential luminaries of our time from 1960s feminist pioneer to the present day - Dr Warren Farrell is a rare breed - he is the only man in history elected three times to the board of The National Organisation for Women in New York City. The past decades have seen him go from being the world's most celebrated male-feminist, to shunning men's and women's "rigid roles of the past". From authoring 'The Liberated Man' and speaking on women’s rights the world over, to highlighting the global boy crisis and the impact of dad deprivation on girls, boys, women, men and society.
Enthralling both ends of the political spectrum he has appeared on over 1000 TV shows - from CNN, Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, Donahue, Barbara Walters, Vaush and the BBC, to FOX, Jordan Peterson, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson. Chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world's top 100 thought leaders, lifelong feminist Farrell has changed the course of history with his groundbreaking books.
The documentary charts Farrell's trailblazing journey and features original interviews, including John Gray ('Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus') and Professor Nicola Graham Kevan, and a reading made specially for the film by the legendary Thomas Sowell about the destruction of the black family.
An epic journey into the maverick trailblazer's evolution, reflecting society's profound transformation over the past six decades. A brave and deeply thought-out insight into society today with Farrell's very personal take on what Gloria Steinem was really like, why Robert Redford and his wife came to his house for dinner, and why John Lennon thanked Farrell for helping him make "the best decision of his life" and "discovering the true meaning of love?"
"You have to be pro-female and pro-male if you want to be pro-human" argues dialogue-advocating Farrell, "we are all in the same family boat - when one sex wins, both sexes lose."
In the 1830s, Winnifred ‘Freddie’ Sheridan finds herself convicted to serve a sentence at the ‘Cascades Female Factory’ in Tasmania. There she meets the charismatic Ellen Scott, a female convict who has created a joyful counter-culture within the misery of 'The Cascades' - a rebel faction known as the ‘Flash Mob’. Together, the two women will grow the ‘Flash Mob’ from an underground movement into a prison-wide feminist phenomenon that could threaten the very existence of ‘The Cascades’.
The inspirational true story of Evelyn Glennie, who experienced profound hearing loss as a child and went on to become a world-famous, multi Grammy-award winning musician. A vibrant, exhilarating story of how the world fell in love with a woman who broke all the rules.
Glennie became a global star, performing with artists including Bjork, Underworld and Mark Knopfler. She has also released more than 40 albums and performed over 2,500 concerts worldwide.
It’s 2005. Grace is 12, born of dual heritage, Jamaican and British, her 16 year old brother Curtis too. They live in a town in the Midlands with their Jamaican father David and British mother Esther. David and Curtis’ polar opposite ideals become the catalyst of ongoing friction between themselves and the entire family.
Kate is feeling frustrated with her life, her mental health is also not helping as she keep getting seizures and visions of someone who looks just like her. Her double’s name is Hannah and she is all that Kate has ever aspired to be: a successful executive in a huge pharmaceutical company. One night, Kate is overcome by dizziness and she wakes up on Hannah’s floor. Hannah’s brother Jack arrives, Kate tries to explain that she is not Hannah, but Jack is convinced that his sister is having one of her psychotic episodes. Later that night she encounters a scientist called Doctor Solomon, who explains to her that in a mysterious way Hannah managed to switch their dimension to save herself from an attempt murder. He promises Kate her that if she finds out who tried to murder Hannah he will be able to return them both to their own worlds. Kate assumes Hannah’s identity so that she can catch the murderer. It dawns on her that she has several strong suspects: an addicted brother, an abusive boyfriend and a harasser boss.
How can you be accepted when you're hiding behind a mask? The film represents a journey of a woman overcoming fear of not being accepted: starting from her desire to correspond to societal female standards, through admitting that she always felt as a weirdo and looking for an outside validation, to understanding that she does not need people who do not love her as she is and finally to accepting that she is ‘not normal’ and that the only acceptance she needs is the self-acceptance.
Freedom is our greatest need and our greatest fear. A story of one day from a life of a woman, everyday fighting with herself, trying to find freedom to feel, to enjoy, to make mistakes, to be a human being. A life happens not in epic events, but in everyday small steps.
When we are 100% authentically ourselves, we are being told we are Too Much. This is a story of everyday fighting with yourself and for yourself, of trying to find freedom to feel, to enjoy, to make mistakes, to be a woman.
From 20s to their 40s and more, women are put in cliche boxes suggesting what they should be at this age, at this life stage, in a certain country and culture. But we need to find a way to our true selves.
A non-linear iterated body of work investigating the sonic, visual and haptic frequencies of images, ancestral memory, transmission, oral tradition, and metaphors of radio technologies as sites of possibility for the African diaspora.
Humans demonstrate and passionately argue that plants have as much by way of brainpower as they do beauty. And what if they were actually communicating with us? And if they were, what do they have to tell us?
In September 2016, Susanna Cappellaro's husband told her he was going to become a cyborg. She immediately began filming his radical new path, the impact on their relationship, and her own deep dive into the world of transhumanism. Susanna's fight to maintain her altered relationship leads us to consider the wider impact of technology on the future of humanity as we know it.
