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Kaleidoscope

Synopsis

A taut, psychological thriller that explores the inescapability of a destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother. At the heart of this modern day 'Psycho' are some unsettling questions: Can we ever escape the role in which we are cast by our early circumstances? Must a perpetrator first be a victim?

Details

Year: 2016
Type of film: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: HD
Director: Rupert Jones 1st Feature
Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson, Maggie Monteith
Executive Producer: Chris Reed, Phil Rymer
Editor: Tommy Boulding
Screenwriter: Rupert Jones
Director of Photography: Philipp Blaubach
Production Designer: Adrian Smith
Sound: Steve Parker
Music: Mike Prestwood Smith
Principal cast: Toby Jones, Anne Reid, Sinead Matthews

Genre

Action

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Stigma Films, Kaleidoscope Film Company, Longships, Freebie Films production

Stigma Films

Matthew James Wilkinson

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Based on the writer/director's own childhood experience of hospital, Seeing Things explores the emotional journey of an adolescent boy, Jack Park, who is in hospital to undergo plastic surgery to expand his hare-lip. It is an experience which renders him temporarily mute and without access to mirrors.

Seeing Things

Director: Rupert Jones

Year: 1998

Eleven year old Jack Park is in hospital for plastic surgery on his hare lip. After the operation, he goes in search of a mirror and a magical journey begins. His adventure in the strange world of the hospital begins with an imaginary battle and ends in an encounter with a patient who performs impossible conjuring tricks. When the plastic surgeon visits Jack to inspect his handiwork, the boy performs his own trick and disappears.