Alice, a young girl who's recently moved to London to live with her older brother, struggles to come to terms with what she wants in life and who she is. She becomes friends with an American girl, who is seemingly everything she would like to be. But Alice can't break out of the cycle of mental and emotional insecurity she's found herself experiencing, since moving to the big smoke
Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches explores how individuals and groups spend time in two distinctive public London locations.
Made by Esther Johnson as part of an Arts & Humanities Research Council project, this poetic documentary illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.
Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the film incorporates contributions from a diverse range of visitors. These testimonies highlight themes such as the psychological feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a place, the importance of design for everyday street furniture and access to communal outdoor space.
The film acts like a stranger who joins you to ‘watch the world go by’, and to break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.
Biopic of Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, a Scottish-born immigrant to the United States, became the second-richest man in the world during the steel industry boom at the end of the 19th century. The industrialist and activist, whose vast steel business contributed to America’s growing military power, then gave away almost his entire fortune through numerous philanthropic ventures, including the funding of over 3000 public libraries worldwide.
A homage to 1960s gothic fantasy, and Italian and Japanese horror, Black Woods at Sundown's cautionary tale follows a girl's serene summer afternoon, as it descends into psychedelic nightmare.
Hyperactive teenager Broadfoot has an imageary friend called Ian who happens to be a middle aged man dressed in a SS uniform. One day Ian takes Broadfoot on an adventure in search of gold but he soon realises he has been mislead into taking part in a deadly crime.
Charlie bottles up his problems into a cloud floating above his head. A tense birthday dinner with his wife forces him to confront his issues - with spectacular results.
Cibo Di Violenza is an extreme shockumentary that tells the short and horrific story of cannibalism, it also hits you hard with what some cultures are alleged to eat and how far some company’s go to get their flavourings. This film is certainly not for the squeamish but it does ask more questions about us humans than it provides answers.
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From their first conversation the film set out to highlight reaction to unspecified places, as jump off points to something, offering a culture of play in " Ballardian" environments where past planning has lost relevance. Places that induce reaction to the architecture of existence.
Colours is a gripping drama about Adam (17) and his battle to resolve a situation that spirals out of control when he and the team discover his best friend, and football team mate, Tom is gay. The team is led by the aggressive and malicious captain, Mike, who gives Adam the ultimatum to either be on their side or Tom’s. Adam is left with the choice of standing by his friend Tom who has lied to him and caused the position he’s in, potentially facing losing all of his other friends and having his world turned upside down, or Adam keeps his life stable in siding with Mike and leads Tom into a situation that’s likely to have a terrible outcome.
Susan, outwardly confident and Becky, more fragile and shy, both in their late twenties, are inseparable friends. But both women have secrets they have not shared, some recent, some long past and deeply buried.
When, on a weekend trip to Dartmoor, they encounter the charismatic Chris, they are led into a web of mind games, sexual deceit and betrayal. As Becky’s traumatic involvement in Chris’ own damaged past is slowly revealed, a psychological journey swiftly becomes a fight for survival.
A young boy releases a cloud into a church and it builds to a storm. Elwood’s Ark is a poem that challenges notions of religion and redemption. It traces the journey of the water we drink, back 13.8 billion years through time and space to the beginning of the Universe.
Spoken in the words of a child, the film warns of a coming apocalypse. It is an apocalypse of our own making - an apocalypse in which divine intervention will not play a part, and only we ourselves may prevent.
