Projects matching: John Smith

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John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years, unbenown to his two wives. Yet, when the police find something amiss in his paperwork, John battles to keep his wives from discovering his guilty secret.

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Dad’s Stick features three objects that my father showed me shortly before he died. Two of these were so well-used that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured. The third object seemed to be instantly recognizable, but it turned out to be something else entirely.

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In Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, a display of nationalism is taken to its logical conclusion. Moving between macro and micro perspectives, Flag Mountain sets dramatic spectacle against everyday life as the inhabitants of both sides of the city go about their daily business.

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Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.

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Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment.

The ritual of the Western bar-brawl is relocated in a London working men's club.

The formal approach (to choreography, framing and editing) ensures that the viewer is made aware of the choreographed nature of the violence. This violence appears to have no consequences, the actors' bodies being as rubbery and invulnerable as those in the television Westerns that inspired it.

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While the Iraq war continues, a day's sightseeing and the features of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small. Museum Piece is the second 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 Throwing Stones (Switzerland, November 13th 2004).

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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).

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A Faustian puppeteer tells the story of Mary, a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness. She takes refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the survival or destruction of the deadlights realm, a world that exists between this and the next.

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After being knocked out, an erratic Paul Hunt believes he has been the victim of a mugging, robbed of £1000, a deposit for his new house. Relationships are already strained between his new wife and his elderly father who all live under the same roof. Paul is now under pressure at his new job as a double glazing sales man for tyrant Big Al, under pressure to care for his devoting father and under pressure to get the money back, before his pregnant wife finds out.
 
Life just can't get worse for the trainee salesman as his boss forces him to wear glasses - "They make you look 17% more intelligent" - his new company car looks like Tweety Pie on wheels and his wife's on his back to get a new home.
 
Made on a shoestring, yet glittering with wit and invention - and jam-packed with brilliant set-pieces - Finnigan's digital feature is a superb example of Scottish independent filmmaking.

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Worst Case Scenario starts out as a series of still photography depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. But as Sigmund Freud casts his long shadow across the city, the static world slowly and subtly comes to life and an increasingly improbable chain of events and relationships starts to emerge.

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The fine line between fiction and reality becomes blurred when a horror video rental is used by a serial killer to morally justify his crimes to the world. What starts off as a conventional teen slasher, transforms into a stark and disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer, with a taste for human flesh.

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A world weary London detective interviews a range of thoroughly unreliable witnesses who have seen an armed robbery take place in a street. Contradiction abounds but one person saw it clearly . . .