2 Small Channel Video Installation, featuring a monologue excerpted from an untitled novel by Alissa Bennett
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2 Small Channel Video Installation, featuring a monologue excerpted from an untitled novel by Alissa Bennett
2004-01-15
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8.0Heroin 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.
5.9The 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.
10.0After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.
6.5CREMASTER 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 ...
5.5Based 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.
0.0An award-winning feature length film whose sole purpose is to explore as many ways to divide up the frame as possible.
0.0A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.
6.4The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.
7.5Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
0.0A 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.
2.0Henry 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.
6.8One 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.
0.0The power to decide follows a militia man and his captive, a young soldier, as he battles his heart and morals against the grim realities of war.
0.0A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.
0.0A man seeking purpose to live his life, questioning his faith and the existence of humankind. What exactly we were born for?
0.0A woman sits at a crossroads between staying in her abusive relationship or leaving.
8.0Andrea 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.