Footprints - Every Step Could Be Your Last

Director: Ben Hopkins

Year: 2008

Set in Turkey, a market trader sees an opportunity to make his fortune when he is offered a mission to cross the Balkan border to purchase medicine. This insightful film captures the morally complex world of the black market.

Director: Ben Hopkins

Year: 2006

Until 25 years ago, the Kirghiz tribe lived a quasi-Iron Age existence in one of the remotest places on earth. Now, having migrated an amazing five times, they live in Turkey, a tribe divided. Those over 30 pine for their nomadic history and the rugged mountains of their homeland; the young have a modern education and live in a world of pop music and internet cafés.<br /> <br /> A feature-length mix of the ethnographic and authored documentary forms, the collaboration between distinctive director Ben Hopkins and the Kirghiz tribe makes this film a unique record of a unique people.

Director: Ben Hopkins

Year: 2000

The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz is a black comedy about the Apocalypse.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> A manhole opens just outside the M25, London's orbital motorway. A man crawls out. He wears clothes from another century, his face is pale and strange. His name is Tomas Katz.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> By the motorway, he hails a taxi. After a brief discussion with the taxi driver, something strange happens . . . Tomas Katz is now dressed as the Taxi Driver and is driving the cab. The Taxi Driver is dressed as Tomas Katz, and is standing on the hard shoulder.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Tomas Katz, dressed as the taxi driver, heads into the centre of London.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Outside the Ministry of Fisheries, the Tomas Katz-Taxi Driver picks up the Minister and takes him to a press conference. By the time they arrive at their destination, the Minister has transformed into the Taxi Driver, and Tomas Katz has become the Minister.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> As the Minister, he enters the press conference and declares war on the Middle East.