In 1984 music producer Gary Davis left early recording success in New Jersey and New York City for a fresh start in Florida. From his new home he got working - making over 40 feature length kung fu, zombie and blaxploitation movies, while also helping birth a new sound in hip hop; Miami booty bass. Gary pushes against deep rooted racism and all the hurdles of life to make his art, with an eccentric cast of locals helping along the way. This film mixes archival footage, the films and music of Gary Davis, interviews and a few non sequiturs to paint a fever dream portrait of this determined artist.
Connor and Lewis are twins who are part of a family who have a point of differentness which has a profound impact on the lives of all five family members. After months of fighting and no communication, the two of them come together to spend a day in Canvey Island.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Journey Strand
A sci-fi short set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder is on her deathbed, as her young successor, who is born underground, comes to visit her. The talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and inherited trauma.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand
A magic realist tale of chance, karma and retribution inspired by the Brothers Grimm fable The Wanderers. On an isolated peninsula, a small band of outsiders and survivalists, led by an enigmatic, but fading and delusional matriarch, are severely tested by the unexpected arrival of two strangers. As the two strangers rivalry runs its course, the leadership of this out-of-the-way community is increasingly called into question and an extraordinary chain of events ensues.
Three characters search for meaning in an urban weed. The Narrator pursues perdikaki to find the woman first seen picking it, yet as observations accumulate a shadow researcher emerges. Is Kyria’s knowledge being sought, or the Collector’s? And, other than the symbolic plant, do the other figures exist at all?
Orbiting 3D images of plastics are collaged with hand-processed 16mm film, including scenes from the demolition of the Parkesine factory in Hackney Wick, London, where the first semi-synthetic plastic was invented. Both flickering, contingent materials allude to the history of cellulose nitrate in the development of photography and film.
A woman, tormented to the point of madness by her lust for a man she works with, visits a Shawafa, a Moroccan witch, to find a cure. Has this man cast a spell on her, is she possessed by a bad jinn? Whatever it is, the woman, the Shawafa and her maid find their lives totally transformed by its presence.
Detectives Skye Steele and Inspector Miles Davies solve a kidnapping case that draws them into a 3000 year old supernatural mystery. A mystery that threatens to bring a new darkness throughout 1930s Europe. Is the enormity of the challenge too much for our heroes?
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