Deep in the countryside of a southern state of North America.
A young family are heading west: to a new home, a new job and a new beginning. But, during a brief stop at a roadside diner, a sinister presence joins them for the rest of the journey. As they head off into the storm charged night their worst nightmare is about to emerge.
Meanwhile at Uncle Max's Diner, Juliet, a young English girl travelling around America, is working the late shift. It's a typical night at the old highway stopover, full of the usual characters that enjoy the hospitality and taste of the 'good old US of A'.
However, this wouldn't turn out to be an ordinary evening for Juliet as the 'comings and goings' between staff and regulars is overshadowed by the arrival of a disturbing customer.
Here lies the setting to this chilling thriller based on a true and harrowing story.
We meet Mel, a young attractive blonde, on her wedding day. Within the hour her new husband, Fred, is dead. She must quickly find a husband to present to her grandmother, who is dying of cancer. In a stable relationship Mel stands to inherit Granny's money. Sipho, the photographer at her wedding, quickly steps into dead Fred's shoes.
When, a few weeks later, Granny dies and the Will is read Sipho is announced the benefactor! It is now up to Mel to find a way to get her hands on what she considers to be rightfully hers. This involves finding another dead body to pull off her plan.
Set in the new South Africa, this film is a black comedy, and while every scene ends with an amusing twist, it is a film that provokes 'thoughtful' laughter.
On the eve of Chinese Dynastical millennium, a score of Triad gangs converge on a warehouse. They all seek to hold, as the clock strikes midnight, an ancient Chinese artefact, which promises to the bearer, at the fateful hour, prosperity for the next 1,000 years.
At the centre of this decidedly dangerous situation are two small time crooks who have been unwittingly conned into 'caretaking' the gem until midnight. They have no inkling of the gem's real significance, or why so many sadistic people are determined to possess it... but they're slowly finding out!
The film is a twist of British film noir with old style Kung Fu. It is a story of deception and gullibility in the highest degree.
We follow John and Jerry through their absurd banter as they twist and turn through the maze of events that unravel before them. In the face of danger...
As four Londoners head off into the depths of the English countryside to share a little Christmas cheer, they get more than they bargained for.
Soap star Julian Evans discovers his younger sister has been impregnated by inbred pig farmer Carl Sykes, and decides to get out of London and spend Christmas back at his parents' house in the English countryside.
Julian's acting career has gone up the creek since leaving top UK soap, Covent Gardens, where he played the character the nation loved to hate, a paedophile social worker. Amber Jade is writing a feature on Julian for a national newspaper. He's been coming on strong since day one, although Jade has a good idea that it will all be over once the article comes out.
When he invites her to his country home, she doubts his intentions, and insists her Spanish friend, Carlos, comes along for the ride. All Julian wants is to sort out his pregnant sister and avoid an unfortunate family embarrassment. Jade just wants to cement her dubious relationship with Julian and spend Christmas at a country estate.
Unfortunately Carlos wants to cement Julian's sister, along with every other female they come across. And when Carlos laces pig farmer Carl Sykes' little sister, Sam, full of Class A's you can guarantee life for all involved will never be the same.
The film is composed of five separate scenes, one acting as a background and the four others superimposed. These scenes develop as a moving picture postcard through the use of dissolves.
An exploration of geometry and gravity through the complex. It seeks to experiment with viewpoint, orientation and camera movement together with sound shape-shifting to disturb and undermine the 'normal' perceptions of reality.
A film poem exploring the destructive power of our popular media, the constraints it places on what we consider beautiful and the damage caused to those who identify with the endless images of physical perfection.
The film evolves from the practice of film maker Barry Hale and dancer/choreographer Jane Mulchrone. Within the space time dynamics of video feedback, tiny actions can clearly be seen to generate instant and massive change.
An animation film, using drawings, diagrams, scribbles, text and light. The intention is to celebrate the raw material of graphic and visual communication.
Developed from a collaboration between dancer Pete Shenton and film maker Laura Smith, Shaker is a tongue-in-cheek mix of dance and comedy, in which a man tries to capture the heart of a female choreographer, who's only wish is to disappear.
Inspired by sculptor Bill Ming's life-size wood carvings of human figures, the film takes its subject from the idea of masks, the concealment of what lies behind them and the revealing of layers within human identity.
Will takes its subject from superstitions and the idea of 'reversal' or making the unknown safe. It uses stark images drawn from superstitions and performance by artist Caroline Locke.
