Margot has been waiting in her house for 40 years. Her waiting morphs into desperate attention seeking. But she does not wait alone. Marie is becoming. Malleable, she tries to fit, slipping through her body and sliding around corners, picking up cues of who and how to be. Marjorie shines effortlessly. Her dream life, her golden exterior, her pretty performance, prove impossible and impermanent. Mother Flower is everything, the beginning and the end. Hers is a body of pure bounty, longed for, nourishing, sheltering. The four women are joined by a chorus of body parts, hands and tongues, mouths and babies, across grandiose performances, staged death scenes, fledgling steps, and displays of fertility and futility, as they reveal how hard it is to be in a body, to be a body.
Made during COVID-19 lockdown with limited resources, "HE SAID / SHE SAID" incorporates a series of reaction shots repurposed from the artist's collection of 16mm found footage to create a reflection on the world at large during a time of introspection, concern, and anxiety. The exchange of gazes evoke a gendered and racialized undercurrent. The footage was optically printed and hand processed into a single film print using expired hi-con film stock.
Anouk came to her grandmother's old house to sort things out and prepare it for sale. She is visited by strange memories of a piece of glass through which, as a child, she could see spirits. These memories do not give her peace.
The main character, a fisherman, lives in a small house on the beach. One day he came to the sea, but not to fish, but to invite a mermaid on a rather unusual date.
The protagonist is leaving on a journey to the places, that remind her of the past. The woman looks back on her memories of the unhappy love and tries to leave these behind.
Joseph's story is told in the context of God's plan for Israel and the promised coming of the Messiah, powerfully demonstrating God's sovereign hand in all things.
This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.
A deadly red tide concocted by Professor Pinch and the evil squid Krakken threatens the reef village where the Finely family lives. When King Pacificus intervenes and offers an unlikely shelter of protection, he teaches the reef fish about trust and forgiveness.
In his film Fat Head, Tom Naughton demonstrated that much of the official advice about healthy eating is wrong - so wrong that it's created a record number of kids who are overweight, diabetic, and can't concentrate in school. Fat Head Kids explains what kids need to know about diet and health by taking them on a journey aboard a biological starship. By seeing how the crew members are programmed to respond to foods, kids learn what makes us fat (and no, it's not just about calories), how bad food makes 'boy boobs', why food sets our mood, and why industrial food causes health problems ranging from diabetes to ADHD. Finally, kids learn how their biological starship was programmed to thrive on the Planet of Real Foods.
In one night, a red flash fills the planet's sky, instantly paralyzing mankind into a bloody feast for the alien invaders. But there is hope, as Ral Foster wakes up to find himself unaffected. After discovering his neighbor is also immune to the red shock, they team up and set course for an underground military base. Traffic filled roads are impassable, forcing them to set out on foot as they try to fend off the massive alien forces that roam the wasteland. Only if they manage to reach the nuclear weapons base, can they destroy the alien army of death pods and vicious mutant beasts. With night setting in, their chances grow slim.
The idle moments in the kitchen become an opportunity to reflect on oneself, on who one is, and on that elusive sense of lack that separates us from happiness. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”