Short Film

The short film’s main character is a water spider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider. Though she is scared of him at first, the water strider soon gets used to the presence of the spider.Read More »

Artavazd Peleshian wrote:
“It was during my work on the film We that I became convinced that my interests were elsewhere, that the very essence and main thrust of montage for me was found less in assembling scenes and more in the possibility of disjoining them, not in their juxtaposition but their separation. It became clear that what interested me above all wasn’t joining two elements of the montage, but rather separating them by inserting a third, fifth, even tenth element between them.Read More »

At first glance, line dancing might appear to be an incongruous activity for members of the queer community, given that it takes place in spaces thought to be less accepting. However, for those who attend the eponymous Stud Country, a weekly queer country-and-western line-dancing and two-step class in Los Angeles, it is a reclaiming of those spaces. Following the tradition of the longtime gay line-dancing club Oil Can Harry’s, which was open for 52 years and closed in 2021 due to the pandemic, Stud Country seeks to honor queer cowboy culture by subverting stereotypes and reveling in a shared joy of line dancing. But with the forthcoming demolition of their most recent venue, Club Bahia, the future of Stud Country becomes nebulous.Read More »

Structured in three parts, Overland evokes an enigmatic landscape of forms, substances, creatures and memory through a hand-edited super8 colour collage of personal material shot over one year.Read More »

Synopsis: Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.Read More »

Short stories by George MacKay Brown, adapted for television by John McGrath

Three short-stories by Orcadian author Brown, adapted to create three short plays, running back-to-back, in an episode lasting just over 90-minutes. It explores the lives of islanders, past and present.

Brown won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and although ultimately unsuccessful he was shortlisted for a Booker Prize for fiction.

Take into consideration that there’s three stories with approx. 10 actors and actresses in each, then add in Scottish drama’s reputation for using the same tried-and-tested faces over and over again. That means, if you’re a Scot over 40, you’re bound to end up spending the evening guessing the other things they were in!Read More »

On a winter’s day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She’s happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby’s head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad’s excited; mother and daughter rest.Read More »

A lonely, religious, older woman meets a strange girl in a graveyard. A young woman named Anabel mistakes a poor woman for her deceased mother. The woman, who shares an uncanny physical resemblance to the dead mother, accepts her role, since it represents a social advancement for her. However, a cousin of Anabel’s interferes with the aim of taking over the inheritance.

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A self-portrait of the director and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author’s filmography.Read More »