Seafood is a jaundiced romantic comedy about modern metropolitan love, lust and disappointment. Colin wants to fall in love. Naveen is looking for sex. During an unexpected Friday night on the tiles their hopes are thwarted and their frustrations fuelled as they travel across the changing landscapes of East London.
Fighting over a television remote control, an eight year old girl and her little brother break a window. Mum will soon be home. What will they do? What will they tell her?
The two of them come up with a quick scheme to sort out the grave problem at hand; an emotional roller coaster that marks the end of their innocent cosy world. In the next ten minutes big sister comes up with the perfect plan and to her surprise, little brother becomes her unquestioning follower, or so she thinks.
A father and daughter dance together but their playful banter turns to jealousy and indignation. Anger builds between the generations and sexes, starting a cycle of violence seemingly without end.
Senses is a feature-length portmanteau film divided into five parts. Each part is named after its story's protagonist, is written and directed by a different person, and set in a different part of the world.
The stories are not exactly related to one another except through their thematic link to one of the five senses. Each story is very different in terms of narrative, tone, and adopted approach to its theme, crossing genre boundaries to give Senses a broad and rich appeal.
Part One: Anna
Anna, a cellist in her 20's, arrives at a remote church by the coast to stay with Helen, an old friend of the family who now lives with reclusive retired music conductor, Rashid. While there, Anna learns that Rashid is afflicted by a mysterious malady which forces him to hear human suffering as it occurs throughout the world. A malady with which she herself will come to be afflicted.
Part Two: Jerry
Jerry Sitzer is a native New Yorker who has a pre-occupation with underwear. Musing over his life, Jerry sorts through his neuroses, memories, and guilt on a quest to find true love after yet another failed relationship.
Part Three: Arthur
Arthur Stone is a freelance paparazzo, addled by a worsening amphetemine addiction and consumed by bitterness and disillusion. When he snaps a shot of what he thinks may be the clue to a murder and threatening notes begin to appear, his life and mind begin to derail, forcing him ultimately to confront his own values and double-standards, as well as the supposed infallibility of the recorded image.
Part Four: Zoe
When Zoe decided to go visit her friend and ex-lover Claude in Paris, she discovers that he now lives as a transvestite in a commune dedicated to the pleasures of food and flesh. At first drawn to the sense of free abandon inside the House, as the night wears on, she realises that there is still hope of finding that unique spice which could make sense of her life.
Part Five: Anais
Their marriage on the verge of collapse, Anais and Moncho journey to San Pedro on the edge of the Attacama Desert to meet a shaman named Abuelo Peto. He introduces them to the San Pedro cactus, a hallucinogenic plant that he says will help them understand their problems and each other better. Together they begin a journey that they hope will save their relationship, but with almost tragic consequences.
Potato men Dave and Larry are doing their rounds to the local chippies and
we go along for the ride in this hilarious, outrageous, raunchy and often
jaw-dropping comedy.
Sammy Gilanders is a quiet and sensitive seven-year-old boy, whose simple and uncomplicated life was forever altered when his mother gave birth to baby Susie. On the day of Susie's christening the whole villiage turns out to wish her well and get drunk at the reception. Running away before the service Sammy finds solace in the shade of a large lonely tree behind the church. The tranquility of his shaded haven has a profound effect on Sammy which in a bizarre turn helps Sammy to readjust to the new role of older brother.
Shadows is a short experimental film about the fact that no matter where we come from or who we are or what language we speak, we are the same colour ie black. The languages spoken in the film are Chinese, Russian, Indian, African and English. The film was created by filming the shadows of people talking against a wall.
Shaun of the Dead is an everyday tale of life, love and the living dead focussing on a group of friends who encounter a literal night from hell at their local pub resulting in a zombie holocaust.
'Obey', the word flickers onto the monitor screen. The small shaved monkey works hard, pulls the lever. He does what he's told to do - and he receives his reward. An allegory of man's thankless task of working for nothing but shallow consumer products.
Dundee is the bingo capital of Britain. With the highest number of gambling establishments per capita of anywhere outside of Las Vegas, it's residents truly are bingoing mad. This documentary looks at the strong tradition of bingo playing in Dundee as seen through the eyes of a small section of bingo addicts - set against the city's industrial past. In this city bingo is not just a game, it's a lifestyle.
A French neurologist, arrives at the run-down Shimkent Hotel, Kazakhstan, where he encounters a solitary young man, suffering from amnesia and obviously deep in shock after some catastrophe.
As they begin treatment, the patient slowly recounts his story - a tale involving industrial intrigue, cultural incomprehension, a get-rich-quick scheme which goes horribly wrong, and a desperate flight for survival across the Pakastini border.
Shot on analogue video, with superb desolate landscapes and settings. Utterly gripping and very, very strange indeed.
