Adeline For Leaves explores nature, science and mythology through the eyes of an eleven-year-old botanical prodigy and her recently deceased, elderly mentor.
Beauty Is... the film by community educator and guerrilla film maker Toyin Agbetu asks ‘what is beauty?’ and examines the answer from a philosophical position through discussions on hair, skin shade, body image and character.
It's a serious, yet often humorous cross between Chris Rock's "Good Hair" and Bill Duke/D. Channsin Berry's "Dark Girls" documentaries with some sensitive Oprah styled interviews mixed in.
The film explores the risks posed by chemical straighteners and skin bleaching, it shares insights on conditions like Vitiligo and Alopecia whilst discussing the impact of biased media on children and personal relationships.
Backed by a global campaign to challenge governments and the pharmaceutical industry, this is edutainment that may just change your life.
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
An experimental short exploring the poetics of camouflage in everyday landscape, showing the subtle shift between place and character. Told in the style of moving tableaux.
Complete destruction threatens humankind.
A saviour is sent from another galaxy. But is it too late?
Doctor Reynolds lives in an alcoholic mist since the accidental death of his wife a year earlier. A once eminent research scientist and accomplished professional at Harwell, Oxfordshire, he now lives almost reclusively apart from one colleague who remains his trusted friend. One night, a small meteorite crashes down into his garden evoking his curiosity. Upon closer inspection, he discovers the rock contains genetic material to create a living form... a messenger from another galaxy. He cultures the material in his bath tub, but strange incidents start to happen: episodes where he sees his dead wife again.
Within a short time, an alien life form emerges from the bath tub. But he has failed to create the correct culture for it and ithas no idea why it is here. Increasing incidents occur ever more frequently where he is thrown backwards into time. Somehow they're connected with the arrival of the alien.
Drinking Class follows the struggles of an educated but alcoholic barman in his 30's named Jake Sanders as he attempts to reach his potential and move on from Malvern. In this he assisted by the new woman in his life, Frances, as she attempts to sober him up and make him realise he can be so much more than an alcoholic. Nothing is ever that simple with Jake as he struggles to overcome his own demons, Mum's illness, and his alcoholic friends who want him to stay in the pub.
Drinking Class is a drama-comedy that depicts the struggle of a man trying to overcome his own addiction and do the right thing by those around him. It will make audiences laugh and cry in equal measure.
Garry Fraser was born into a family of poverty, violence and alcohol addiction on Edinburgh’s notorious Muirhouse estate. In this documentary, Fraser, a filmmaker and recovered heroin addict, takes us to the heart of the poor, marginalized community he grew up in. This is an open and heart rending journey where Fraser faces some grim challenges before being able to move forward with his own life.
This piece, using a methodology diametrically opposed to Warhol's own, revisits stray elements that pass incidentally through that moment of monumental presence we experience in 'Empire'.
Screenings include:
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
Experimenta 58th BFI London Film Festival, UK
Basic dignity of queer people in India is under attack. An adorable Indian mother & her queer daughter spring into action by the Supreme Court's latest decision on anti-gay law, Section 377.
