Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which combine to produce an unsettling work that does not pretend to analyse nor to understand the serial killers.
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
A bold anthology feature film made by an all-female creative team and cast. Based on the popular play of the same name the 80-minute movie follows 10 women scorned as they directly address their exes' new wives and lovers at an open mic night in Los Angeles. Created by a dynamic group of emerging filmmakers at a time when audiences are demanding films made both by and for women, the project taps into a social and political climate that's left women poised to take back their voices and be heard.
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Blues
Through the maze of a nightmare, a young man faces his father. His trauma springs from the darkness and he gradually exorcises his bitterness.
The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.
A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down.
A woman sits at a crossroads between staying in her abusive relationship or leaving.
Andrea Pennacchi questions whether it is still possible to restore the Homeric poems in all their power and tries in his own way, starting with the literal text and then enriching the narrative with reflections, memories, insights and fantasies.
Henry Irving is dead. Join Irving’s restless spirit as he tells the story of how he transformed himself from a stuttering, spindly country boy into the most formidable actor of the nineteenth century. It is a story of a man who petrified London with his Gothic portrayals of mad monarchs, guilt-stricken murderers and the devil himself. A story of a man who could never escape his monsters – even in death. A filmed version of the live one-man stage play by James Swanton.
A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.
A late adolescent outsider tells his story while wandering through his city. Zero is the chronicles of a soul dissolved in poetry and existential limbo of nostalgia.
The chasm through which light bleeds , bleeds out of proportion with bright spectral flickers flaming the trees abrading out the tissues with excruciating vigour gaining momentum
The film captures the essence of Success' emotional journey, from being stuck in the past to finding the courage to move forward.
In a small apartment, a couple spends a tense evening. Arguments are frequent, but that evening, the situation reaches a climax. During a violent altercation, Sophie, exasperated, speaks to express everything that goes through her head to her boyfriend Marc. Her monologue marks a turning point in their relationship and in her daily struggle as a woman.
A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.