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.
After the initial fun of trying for a baby starts to wear off and their failure to conceive start to put strain on the relationship, a woman in forced to question 'just what is so bloody brilliant about pregnancy and motherhood anyway? '
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.
Anne lives in the nursing home and is waiting for her daughter Rose to visit her, but when she wakes up in the woman's refugee she discovers bruises on her body and is coughing up blood. What happened to her the night before?
London, 1965. Nizam is depressed, drinking heavily and convinced that his wife Marjorie, who left him when their son was born, will return. In the course of one day, Nizam remembers his courtship and marriage in the fifties and in 2012 we see what happens, when Sajid finally finds Marjorie.
One in three girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, conflict or discrimination. This animated film shows, in 2000 fun still photos of 15 children in their village in Malawi, how education can give girls the chance to move from poverty to opportunity.
He's a sadist, she just runs away. They meet urgently, quickly, in dark alleys, closed kebab shop and take aways. Both married, both successful - best companions in severance. A harsh, ruthless portrait of two characters and a city that doesn't love them back.
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.
