A crack tream of mercenary thieves ply their trade using an unusual method; they infiltrate their target’s dreams, and trick their subconscious into revealing information. Now a wealthy industrialist has an even tougher task for them: can they plant an idea in a subject’s mind, without that person realising that it is not their own. Can inspiration, be faked? Continue reading Inception (2010)
Casey is a young woman living in Columbus, Ohio, a small city in a quiet part of America. She has finished college but has not moved on to the next thing yet; rather than grad school, she is killing time in a cul-de-sac job at the local library. Continue reading Columbus (2017)
In 1974 Christine Chubbuck, a news presenter on a local Florida TV network, shot herself during the evening broadcast, committing suicide live on air. The incident was the inspiration for the classic 1976 film ‘Network’, but has mostly receded into history. In 2016 a young actress, Kate Lynn Sheil, prepares to play Chubbuck in an unusual recreation of her life and death. Continue reading Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Kirsten Johnson has spent her professional career behind a camera. A cinematographer who specialises in documentary film, she has worked on projects large and small, in many different locations across America and round the world. But this documentary, is different. Continue reading Cameraperson (2016)
In the forests of the Pacific North West, a troubled war veteran lives off the grid with his daughter, Tom. They camp, they forage for food, they keep a low profile; a seemingly happy, simple life. But the modern world is on their trail and they are constantly on the move. Eventually, this leads them to a remote community of misfit types and conflict; Tom wants to stay, the father does not. Continue reading Leave No Trace (2018)
Max’s world is fire, and blood. Once a cop, now a scavenger, he lives moment to moment in a nightmarish future that looks more likely by the year. In the fourth film in the series, Max is drawn to another of the underdog causes he is often drawn to, this time helping a group of women escape the clutches of the vile Immortan Joe. Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Frances lives, loves and laughs in New York, at least when she can afford it. A professional dancer a few years out of college, but a few years short of career traction, she is fully IN the moment: drifitng happily from day to day, not worrying about the future too much. But change is coming to this haphazard existance. Continue reading Frances Ha (2012)
In contemporary Tokyo, a depressed young woman drifts through her days in a gloomy fugue state. Her job is stifling, her work colleagues relentlessly cheery, her mother relentlessly critical. Little do they all realise: she has imagined her way out of these dead ends already. Continue reading Kumiko the Treasure Hunter (2014)
In a rough neighbourhood in the Parisian suburbs, young Vic grapples with her grim looking future. Barred from attending high school, marginalised due to the ethnicity, her options seem to be; housewife, service industry drone, drug dealer. Continue reading Girlhood (2014)
