Towards the end of her life Susan explores her relationship with her nineteen year old daughter Samantha. Throughout the film Susan is dying of cancer - although this is not expressed definitively to the audience. Although the main concern of the film is the mother-daughter interaction, a third character is imparted through the dialogue in the form of an absent father.
A portrait of a tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse as seen through the eyes and ears of the family that have lived there on and off for the last 22 years. With music by Scanner and a range of voices from the filmmaker’s sound archive, the work explores notions of nostalgia, memory and place.
A man caught by his own emotional weakness in the limbo between life and death must find acceptance in himself and follow the eerie calm and reassurance of The Voice into the eternal lake of Death.
SOUTHBANK UNSEEN will blow our minds and get us thinking through four, visually dynamic and aurally arresting, documentary dramas that delve into the unseen.
These short documentary dramas give us an alternative view of London’s South Bank from the eyes and ears of four extraordinarily gifted individuals.
The film documents the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of the forest in remote Scotland. It follows the character's unconventional life, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jack is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realise.
Emily wanders the places of bygone memory with her Polaroid camera, trying to recapture the times now lost. The places are like photos, disjointed and divided, as she takes her own picture again and again. A short film about love lost and the hole it leaves behind.
An Oral Fixation features three female characters, all performed by Gaffney, and was filmed in a haunted park-keeper’s lodge, where Gaffney currently resides. The main character, with a black plastic masked face, plays a ouja board and the two other characters appear as apparitions/hallucinations.
Day Will Fall follows the fragmented psycho-odyssey of a Soho Debt Collector, whose past, present and future congeal offering a brief moment for redemption.
A short film about teaching creativity by This Is It Collective.
Take:
A pinch of inspiration
A handful of joy
2 spoonfuls of courage
3/8 of a litre of desire
A splash of pride
3 heaped tablespoons of laughter
A kg of saltwater
A cup of going the distance
You’ll know when its ready…
