In a world of fear and greed, the Roundheads and the Squareheads live in tense proximity, divided by a painted line across the ground. Poverty, loneliness and malaise are rampant. An emergency summit is held to see what can be done. A heated debate results in a charged declaration: 'It’s On!' Orders are issued, civilians are conscripted and troops are mobilised. Both armies charge towards each other with rising urgency until, with arms outstretched, they collide in an epic, heartfelt hug. The military maneuver concludes successfully, spreading happiness and healing differences across the country.
Jim is a witty writer and brilliant comic book artist. He is the creator of Captain Penumbra, the superhero from the lunar realm where light and darkness merge. After a thousand letters Gwynne is finally going to meet him in person.
But leaving her home in Ireland Gwynne approaches Jim slowly, visually savouring the America that he has written about and asking complete strangers what image of Jim they form by reading the letters he has sent her. Gradually she circles closer to Jim's personal realm, meeting his family and visiting his childhood haunts.
When Gwynne reaches Arizona Jim's current whereabouts are finally revealed. Passing the gates of the State Penitentiary she is about to witness the disturbing reality of Jim's present existence. She finally encounters the convicted killer she has befriended awaiting his fate on Death Row, in the half light between life and death.
Three years ago Peter found a new born lamb abandoned in a ditch. 'Ben' is now a full-grown sheep with ambitions to move into Peter’s house with him. Peter however has other ideas. 'Peter and Ben' tells the touching and quirky story of how two - drop outs find friendship in a hostile world.
A visual portrait of the disabled avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, as represented by his environment. The film is a very personal movement through Steve's past and present, as seen through the house he has lived in for the last 30 years and the objects within it that both surround and represent him - as an individual living with a disability, and as an artist-filmmaker who has enjoyed a long and successful career.
A light-hearted, comical, action animation about Billy and his many attempts to escape his Post It note bound prison. Post It Prison was made using over 1400 sticky memo notes.
Yorkshire, England 1952. Ruth Ackroyd, leaves the monotony of her work in her father's textile mill on a Friday afternoon, and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems.
Powerful forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to transform a ruined cottage. And when the neighbouring farmers take against the unborn child, it’s her very survival that is threatened.
Chupoo, who lives in a tree on a lonely floating elephant, is habitually woken each morning by a cheeky sausage. After this startling start to the day Chupoo spends the rest of it causing havoc and destruction wherever he goes. Through the chaos the resident creatures pull together using a specially designed mechanism to bring Chupoo his morning shower. As soon as his shower is over trained bats fly the sleeping Chupoo back up his tree to bed, only to see the rigmarole start all over again the very next morning.
The film is structured on a twenty shot sequence of a room that is repeated three times. The first two sequences are in colour, and are shot according to a strict formal plan. Each shot contains a portion of the point of view of its adjacent partners. The second two sequences are in black and white and are more freely structured, even though they follow the spatial-formal pattern established in the first sequence. The only movement in the film is accidental – clouds seen through a window- otherwise nothing moves and there is no sound.
A young troll, Rolli, and his friends find themselves caught up in a quest to find a magic heart that will save his village and all the world from turning to stone. Worst yet he finds he has to do this with the help of a beautiful Elf, Milli, the surmise of everything a troll can't stand.
5 June, 1968: Robert Kennedy wins the California democratic primary and is set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Moments later, he is assassinated by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
But even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting and leading psychiatrists believe he was a 'Manchurian Candidate', hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy.
Now, newly-discovered film and photographs appear to show three senior CIA operatives at the crime-scene, suggesting the CIA was behind the assassination.
A disturbing new investigative documentary based on O’ Sullivan’s reports for BBC Newsnight and The Guardian. Accompanying book to be published by a major US publisher on the 40th anniversary of the assassination in June, 2008.
