This is about the grand re-opening of heritage lottery funded St Leonards Gardens part of Burtons St Leonards designed by architect Decimus Burton. Plush Productions was there to capture the salient moments of this import day in the history of St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex. This project was produed by Plush Prodcutions for Burtons St Leoanrds Society and Hastings Borough Council.
Here's Johnny enters the surreal world of famous graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling against Multiple Sclerosis. Living in an ncreasing state of immobility and frustration, Johnny escapes the confines of his frontroom through his artwork. Through the expression of his brilliant and sometimes troubled imagination we learn about the disease that he cannot escape from.
Beit Iksa is considered the closest West Bank village to Israel, yet it lies between two Israeli settlements that are built on Palestinian land, the separation wall, and is accessed via a checkpoint. The Israelis who reside in both the settlements insist they live in Israeli Jerusalem, yet between them is Beit Iksa, an Arab village situated in occupied Palestine.
Home is a portrait of that tiny village, exploring the indignities and contradictions of Israeli occupation. From the perspective of both Arab villager, and Israeli settler.
How To Destroy The World looks at how we humans can do it easier and faster. Join a polygamous Viking, pet eating vegetables, chickenpigs and the Guzzler Family on these four journeys to the end of the world.
Blaze Films first production is Into The Dark: Exploring the Horror Film a feature length far-reaching documentary exploration into the horror fantasy genre and the reasons behind the scares.
The comprehensive documentary includes interviews of Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker, Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Stuart Gordon, Neil Marshall, Simon Hunter, Paul Andrew Williams, Adam Green, Chris Smith, Jaume Balguero, Tom Holland, Mick Garris, Chris Fowler and Doug Bradley amongst many others.
Juarez is situated across the Rio Grand from the US city of El Paso, Texas. Its over one million desperately poor inhabitants have mostly travelled from the Mexican interior to make Juarez the largest border town on earth.
But why do some many people come to this city? To work in the poorly paid US based factories or maquiladora’s as they are locally known; to illegally cross the border, into the US, in search of the American dream; to traffic drugs for the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs; Or maybe it’s just to Murder!
This truly will be, your ‘City of Dreams’.
A young man struggles with the fact that his girlfriend, upon returning from a trip to see her estranged Indian family, has unexpectedly turned into a samosa.
Legendary jazz guitar great Pat Martino underwent brain surgery that saved his life but erased all memory, emotion and the ability to play. THere he shouldhave remained yet, after years in the wilderness, he came back with such astonishing power and artistry as to bring into question all the known medical facts. Neuropsycologist Paul Broks explores the mysteries of memory, self and creativity underlying the human condition. Martino provides the sublime soundtrack.
Mayomi lost her husband to the Tamil Tigers, her mother and home to the Tsunami, and is now the only female member of her family, single-handedly caring for her disabled father, her alcoholic brother and his abandoned six-year old son. She is also still homeless and knows that, in a country crippled by bureaucracy and corruption, this is unlikely to change. The film follows Mayomi as she struggles to overcome the obstacles in and outside her family. Her optimism and courage drives her forward and also provides the heart of this moving and intimate film.
An intimate portrait of a young woman struggling to gain independence, whilst holding her troubled family together.
Mi Piace is a film of made with the documentation of one performance to camera, where during a spurious singing rehearsal, the singer's body is progressively bound to test the changes in the voice. The film leaves ambiguity as to the exact nature of the events, which are presented as a diverse collection of documentation, hence suggesting a history.
The singer is asked to perform repeatedly a popular aria (O Mio Babbino Caro), at each repetition (itself interrupted in mid flow at different points) the singer's body is bound, starting from the ankles, and proceeding upwards. The section isolated in the soundtrack Mi Piace, is part of the aria and means like' or in its original context 'I would like to'.
