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…
The movement of light and time, of process and interaction. Places where we have been, our footprints left. Hope becomes despair, melancholy becomes reflection.
This is a docudrama about 5 survivors of Mental Health problems It tells the true stories of these people as they struggle to stand up for human rights and choose the treatment best for their wellbeing. The film aims to spread the word about how people can recover from Mental Health problems and support Recovery's campaign to allow survivors to have control and capacity over how they are treated.
Alan wants to forget the things that have lead him to identity crisis but, he must confront them. The pitfalls of such a task could lead anywhere. The passageway through his recollection is one that snakes between the pivotal and critical. His past waits with baited breath.
Quint is pre-linguistically deaf. The film follows a day in the life of Quint after the death of his soul-mate June. Little do those around him know it is to be his last as he works his way through his painful existence to send a tragic message of guilt.
New York, London, Monroe is a memory piece reflecting the souls unrequited love for a place, or a life, it has never consciously visited. A Future Archive is projected, drawn from the Artist's past works.
Sack Barrow explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London.The film observes the environment and daily routines of the final month of the six workers. Years of miniature chemical and mineral processes transform the space into another world.
In this evocative and unique experimental documentary, award winning filmmaker Jill Daniels explores her memories of violence 30 years ago hitchhiking through the Basque country. She searches for the places she hopes will jolt her fading memory. Merging past and present, documentary and fiction she recreates her journey. Diving further into this world she discovers other women, Maria and Aitziber, also changed by violence. Maria is a photographer who lives alone and has survived a car crash but her niece was killed. Her dead father was sentenced to death in the civil war in Spain and she holds close his prison diary. Aitziber is a young Basque nationalist who spent five years in prison and for five days after her arrest was tortured by the Spanish police. Together these stories, build a mosaic of impressions of the past and present. As Daniels comes to the end of her journey she realizes she can't be free of the past. She has come full circle.
