At the end of the 1970s, Gary Numan found himself to be one of the world’s biggest-selling recording artists, 'Are ‘Friends’ Electric?' and 'Cars' were huge hits, no one had heard, or seen, anyone like Gary Numan.
The Asperger’s syndrome that helped forge Numan's tunnel-like ambition, informing his music and image, also brought problems. At a time when the public knew little about the condition, the press labeled him a freak, one paper suggested his parents should have been doctored for giving birth to him. Depression, anxiety, near bankruptcy and a long period in the wilderness followed. Then Numan fell in love with his biggest fan, Gemma, who helped him rediscover his passion for music. (SXSW Film Festival brochure)
SXSW Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
A stranger, Tasya, arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his apartment, his life, even his dreams. He can't summon the courage to confront Tasya and she becomes progressively more comfortable and controlling. Can Damir find it in himself to struggle out of this trap and regain control of his life, or will Tasya take him over completely, leaving no trace of Damir in the world?
SXSW Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that he must confront his own difficult memories if he is to get his daughter back.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Dare Strand
Tehran, 1988. Shideh lives amid the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war. Accused of subversion and blacklisted from medical college, she is in a state of malaise. Furthermore, her husband is at war, leaving her alone to protect their young daughter, Dorsa. Shortly after a missile hits their apartment building but fails to explode, Dorsa falls ill and her behaviour becomes increasingly disturbed. Searching for answers, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbour that the cursed, unexploded missile might have brought in djinns - malevolent spirits that travel on the wind. Convinced that a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess Dorsa, Shideh finds she has no choice but to confront it if she is to save her daughter.
After her mother’s suicide, Helen, a young teacher, travels to Varanasi to deliver a letter to her mother’s twin sister Agatha. Agatha runs a missionary for low caste orphan children. When Helen and Agatha meet, it’s the first time Agatha’s seen her for 25 years.
Helen learns of a serial killing spree which has claimed the lives of four low caste girls, all burnt to death in and around city of fires. The killer seeks to claim the lives of seven girls to free himself and his loved one from the cycle of life and death and attain moksha.
Arjun Das, a CBI officer from New Delhi is sent to Varanasi to find the killer. For Arjun it’s a return to his home and a city he left behind. As the Hindu festival of fire and colour ‘Holi’ approaches the killer prepares to claim the greatest sacrifice and seek deliverance.
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, former Secret Service agent and Presidential guard, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.
ALREADY DEAD is a short documentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living "life" to the fullest. But have we truly come to accept Zombies?
Inspired by the text The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the films centres on a personal diary from a narrator, a European subject, who is describing how his human identity is gradually eroded, being transformed into something else, as a response to the suffering he is viewing.
"and we have killed him" is a visually experimental film, loosely based around "the parable of the man" in "thus spoke zarathustra" by friedrich nietzsche. this film is an exploration of the exploitation of god, and alina (tanya howard) is tired of listening to what others have told her to believe in.
DICKGIRL 3D(X) is the non-binary version of EVA v3.0, an avatar purchased online and appropriated by the artist. Through the experience of 'DICKGIRL 3D(X), the viewer becomes a post-human pleasure-seeker in an encounter with a submissive clay-like sculpture.
