After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. The piece uses the architecture and atmosphere of the Barbican to update the story, which is told in three parts.
Sean HarrisSatan
Florence PughEve
Toby SebastianAdam
Henry RollinsGod (voice)
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer.
Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holidays. In the face of her daughter's disappointment and incomprehension, she does all she can to find the money.
Esteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn't know who his father is. As he searches for his identity in this poetic short film, he determines swimming is a metaphor for life itself.
Rosemary House's first film, shot in her backyard, addresses "sex, death and crazy women" in 11 minutes.
Jay, a 13-year-old boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay's fascination develops into an attraction.
An elegant, abstracted expression of provincial life in which ordinary everyday details become frozen and magnified as its young protagonists find themselves implicated in a moment of sheer madness.
At the end of World War II, a wounded German soldier, disguised as a Canadian, ends up in the midst of a hiding Jewish family.
Hoodie wants to put an end to vigilantism, but the sheeple, manipulated by a slimy Salesman, are about to give a monkey a gun.
Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town.
It's washing day for Abigail. With no one around she can finally get round to doing her dirty laundry. That is until she hears a whistle, and when you hear a whistle you better get out the basement...
Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.
A retired army officer with exceptional marksmanship becomes an assassin for a crime lord, but things go awry when an old comrade is targeted.
A college student named Anthony is having visual and auditory hallucinations which leads him to drink and do drugs.
A high school student's journey to discover his sexuality in a conservative area is made harder as he struggles with sexual abuse, manipulation, and fear.
Based on the repercussions that sexual abuse can have on teenagers and long-term effects.
What's left for an actor who thinks he has done it all? Simon is convinced that he has played every possible character and no roles can challenge him anymore. He's grown bored of acting, but there is one thing that still gets him: The question of how to perfection the role of a dead person. Since no one has ever truly experienced that state and came back to tell the tale, it poses a difficult task. Simon's quest is to accomplish just that.
In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that could change everything. Whilst exploring their surroundings they confront their identities and ultimately put their friendship at risk.