A magical trip into the English countryside, where a lost soul is helped to find his way home by a friendly snail. Featuring Aidan Gillen (The Wire/Game of Thrones) and the voice of legendary folk singer Shirley Collins, as well as a soundtrack by cult Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros.
Savage Witches is a playful, poetic and experimental film about two teenage girls who want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the world around them they set out to transform it and break free! The film attempts to satisfy all their wishes for freedom. They are aided by a magic key, which unlocks the film allowing process to mix with its creation, artifice and reality to intermingle. But when Gretchen and Margarita are confronted with reality, it becomes clear that there is a vast gap between what they say they want and what they really want. Once the game has been set in motion they are swept along by the film’s momentum and must see it through to the end.
Savage Witches is a colourful collage of sounds and images that has been created using all manner of processes and formats from VHS and Super 8 to drawn animation and hand-coloured frames, resulting in a bold and expressionistic exploration of the art of cinema.
Enter Earth – become trapped in endless cycles of creation and destruction. Then look up and rise to the sun as everything turns to dust below. Then cycle begins again. Explores intimate macro terrains in a dialogue with the contractions and expansions in Fjögur Píanó.
SLEEP is a short film which observes the everyday, humdrum routine of a young girl coupled with a scientific, dry and factual narration regarding aspects of sleep.
Sleep affects every moment of our daily and nightly life; and yet, half the time we aren’t aware of this.
An observation, investigation and social record of the lives and thoughts of ten residents of the Golden Lane Estate, London. Built in the late 1950s by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, the Golden Lane estate exemplifies an utopian ideal of social housing. This film documents the life of the complex over half a century since its construction and asks questions about domestic and private space and of making a home in such an iconic and distinctive architectural environment.
Drawing on references from archaeology, philosophy, mathematics and ritual, Ultimate Substance departs from the hypothesis that the introduction of coinage in the ancient Greek world effected a profound cognitive shift that was key to the emergence of western philosophic, scientific and dramatic traditions.
'Piercing Brightness' is a science fiction film directed by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad Dawood and set in Preston, Lancashire. The film looks to play on the border between mainstream narrative cinema and experimental film making and utilises science fiction as a backdrop from which to contest fixed notions of race, migration and identity. The film combines digital and analogue processes, high production values and low-fi aesthetics to tell a story through both its narrative and distortions of time brought about by experiments with the various formats used. It incorporates local institutions and people as extended cast, in a process whereby there is a slippage between fiction and document.
Jiang and Shin, agents who have been dispatched from the home planets, land in a spaceship outside Preston, in the North of England. In the guise of a young Chinese boy and girl they are to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the 'Glorious 100', agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe. Living through countless lives without any scope for return, many have become corrupted, forgetting their original purpose and slowly becoming influenced by and in turn influencing their adopted home.
3 Continents, 4 barbers, 1 story... The Fade is an intimate portrait of four barbers across the world over a week in their lives. The observational documentary reveals a portrait of their lives and shines a light on the profession barbering. Set in Ghana,Jamaica, USA and the UK the film interweaves their stories and examines the polarized opposites of the locations. Creating an international dialog of the colorful lives of four men who do they same thing in different time zones, with very different realities.
We are responsible for our dreams. This is the ultimate lesson of psychoanalysis – and fiction cinema. The makers of THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA return with THE PERVERT'S GUIDE IDEOLOGY. Philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Zizek, and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their inventive interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology – the dreams and collective beliefs that shape our political, social and cultural life.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2012 - World premiere
Inspired by the story of real-life identical twin dancers Michael and Jeremy Hodges, DOUBLE TAKE is a story of sibling rivalry and aging bodies. Part drama, part-documentary, the film plots the twins' journey to reconnect with each other after a lifetime apart.
