A ghost story. Set in the 1940s. Inspired by Bill Brandt's photography and classic English black and white movies such as The Innocents and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.
An unique sermon from a blaspheming american bishop which expresses his views on homosexuality, Chinese and African women, the ordination of gay priests and other irreligious topics. This short film is not for those of a faint disposition, strong religious beliefs, gays, straights, foreigners, men, women or children!
The Brittany Job is a documentary feature about two 'toshers' decorating a house in France. Deliberately twisting the makeover show format, the film explores their ambivalent and often comic relationship, unusual painting techniques, the creative process, and above all, colour.
On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a 'diabolical opera' and of Malvina's fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz's perverse universe.
Thought Moments is a Buddhist term for the mental states that we experience after a physical or mental object enters the mind. This film examines subjects during such thought moments. It does this by recording reactions to questions that are seemingly innocuous, but actually seek to reveal our true nature.
As the camera looks out through a barred window and the clock strikes four in a Swiss city, the death of Yasser Arafat provides the starting point for a journey back in time. Throwing Stones is the third video in the Hotel Diaries series, a collection of late-night recordings made in foreign hotel rooms which relate personal experiences to contemporary world events.
Other works in the series currently include Frozen War (Ireland, October 8th 2001) and Museum Piece (Germany, October 14th 2004).
Someone is muscling on the Holy Smokes' cocaine deals and they are not amused. Plus six million dollars has gone missing from Heathrow Airport. Hot on the trail of the money is the Metropolitan Police's most corrupt officer, Detective Inspector Greaves. It's a roller-coaster ride as The Holy Smokes wage war against the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies and the English Firm.
Untitled is a metaphor for a sleeping woman in a state of dream or of psychological disintegration. She gradually reassembles, suggesting either a movement from deep dream-like sleep or more likely a pull back from the decision to die. The human capacity to survive terrible terror, whether on an individual level or as a collective persecuted group, sometimes seems to defy understanding.
Bruno Bettelheim, a child psychoanalyst, survived Dachau and Buchenwald but in peacetime, at a mature age, decided to end his own life. It is this choice: the choice, and the possibility, of escaping psychological terror, that enables humans to reconstruct themselves from even extreme disintegration. To paraphrase Nietzche - the thought of suicide gets one through many a long night.
