Projects with status: Complete

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Taking its name from an alternative reading of the name for the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kannon, KanZeOn, which can be translated as "she who hears the cries of the world", is an unorthodox but utterly magical meditation on sound and the ritual and philosophical role it plays in Japanese Buddhism. Filmed in Kyushu, the film looks at, and more importantly listens to, three very special Japanese musicans: Akinobu Tatsumi, the young Buddhist priest and custodian of a temple outside of Kumamoto City who moonlights as a hip-hop DJ while indulges his love of beat boxing in the remote forests; Eri Fujii, who has devoted her life to the mastery of the sho, a rare and ancient Chinese bamboo wind instrument evoking the cry of the phoenix, and Akihiro Iitomi, a master of Noh theatre and a kotsuzumi drum player whose love of jazz almost matches that of his passion for Japan’s traditional performing arts. As a documentary, KanZeOn does not seek to explain as much as to enlighten, taking the viewer on a hypnotic sensual journey from the timeless to the modern by way of a mystical parade of images that resonate seamlessly with the sounds.

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David dreams of a new life, of a greater spirituality, of a break with his modern existence. He must leave behind the empty materialism of his life and seek a greater connection with the earth on which he lives.

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A girl finds herself lost on the outskirts of a big city. Some moments stay with you forever.

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The film depicts usual phenomena in an unusual way. We see images of normal suburban gardens, parks, woodlands and majestic mountains. Some inhabitants include a capitulating squirrel, a pack of hungry dogs and a singing gnome. A rare glimpse into wild life under control and the domesticated running wild.

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A Cleaner works for clients she never sees in houses that don't need to be cleaned. A dark poetic film which deals with the isolation and monotony of domestic work. Hearing and feeling things that may not exist, her thoughts are concealed from her employers and the world.

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The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of the planet Earth.

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11 year old Beanie’s bland life changes forever when Evil Stella and her flaming side-kick Fireboy show up in his back garden one day after school. Evil Stella is after The Golden Nit and kidnaps Beanie’s Mum and Dad thinking they have it. But this is no ordinary nit. The Golden Nit is the battery that powers the sun and if Beanie doesn’t get it home by sunset the sun will die and the universe is doomed. Aided by his shouty older sister Beryl, who has been shrunk to the size of a doll by one of Stella’s electric bubbles, Beanie sets out on a crazy adventure to rescue his parents and save the universe. Armed only with a tube of lazer lip gloss and some blend-in pants, their quest takes them across galaxies via a superhero supermarket, through wormholes, and up the Hairy Scary River escaping from moody mermaids and gold-thirsty pirates along the way. Beanie is helped, and hindered, by Ten Heart Hero who isn’t quite the hero Beanie first thinks he is. When it comes down to it – there really is only one hero who can save the day!

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Ivor’s life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.

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Biologist Philip Hardy knows the Phosphorescent Rabbit exists; he just has to prove it. Reporter Zoe comes to document his discoveries, but then something unexpected happens

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There are many Tales from Paradise Heights And tonight is Halloween... A little girl sits by her window, scared by 'the man' outside A family man begins his lonely, night time vigil A taxi driver begins a shift he will never forget And a Loan Shark stalks the streets still haunted by his past

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A theological test goes wrong when the vanity of two men clashes.