Projects in genres: Woman Director

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1920: Arthur and Charlotte, a couple deeply in love, are making the most of a perfect sunny day in the park. But they are hotly pursued by Nigel, who is determined to reclaim his lost love. Passions reach fever pitch in this short silent movie.

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A fever dream of myths, taxes and housing. Once upon a time in England. Windows were bricked up because of the window tax. Today windows are bricked up - although nowhere near as elegant a feature as found in the city's old houses - in houses facing demolition, preventing illegal entrance.

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'A crash A jolt, a strong harsh jolt then numbing oblivion and the pain from nowhere - pain'. Based on a personal experience the film explores the mental and physical effects of pain.

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Film maker Carol Morley retraces the journey to India she took years before: where her friend and travelling companion, Corky, nearly died in an accident.

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A film about seeing and feeling: that treacherous task of making sense of the world. Laura begins her first adult job and is immediately torn between the professional advice of colleagues and instinctive empathy for the patients in her care. Tragic events bring conflict to crisis forcing a final and defining choice.

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Silent Night is a sad little comedy based on a 1950's news item. Escaped convict, Efian Price runs home to hide. Seeing his girlfriend with another man, he offers to buy her love back by having her turn him in for the reward money.

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A childs summer and his loss of innocence. The picture postcard images of beach huts and beach life hide a darker reality as the boy witnesses his fathers encounter with a woman. The secure, ordered world of the huts begin to show subtle signs of being different.

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A young girl tries to escape the menace of a vicious small-time business man against the feigned ignorance of her mother.

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Swindles and Slim is a brutal, haunting portrait of two seventy-year-old ex-gangsters who regain their youth, only to lose it again - and each other, when bequeathed a stolen painting which is cursed.

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A study of psychological and physical endurance and gender difference. A male and female performer encircle each other in a never-ending race, the cyclical nature of which is echoed by the location: an athlete's race track.

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Coll is stuck in a dead end job serving tea in a lay-by. Escaping is just a dream until she meets the mysterious old Tam Morton.

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The Guru is a mishap-laden, cross-cultural tale about the search for the American dream. A young Indian dance teacher Ramu Gupta embarks for New York City, in pursuit of fame and fortune only to find himself working as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. Through an encounter with Sharonna, a beautiful adult-film star, the shy, inexperienced Ramu is mistaken for a spiritual healer - the Guru of Sex - and becomes an overnight celebrity. Fame comes at a price, however, and Ramu must choose between his newfound notoriety and his growing love for the beautiful Sharonna.