Film The Gra

Featuring those who are and have been close to me.

An documentarian from the BBC visits the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). This documentary shouldn't be viewed as a making of the film, but rather a goof-off session that is simply there to conjure up laughter.

The popular dance band plays four songs.

Two thousand square miles, a mile deep, approximately 10 miles wide- no geological feature on earth evokes a wider spectrum of human emotions than does the Grand Canyon of Arizona. It is impossible not to be profoundly moved when confronting such immensity. But it is more than a chasm, it is alive with mule deer, mountain lions, coyotes, bighorn sheep, wild turkeys, blue grouse, blue heron, desert tortoises, and the rare kaibab squirrel, found only in the Grand Canyon. Long before the Spanish arrived, the Anasazi (Ancient Ones) lived here. Included is an exclusive segment, never before filmed, of Shaman's Gallery, a significant Anasazi find of rock paintings in the Grand Canyon area, dating between 2000 B.C., and A.D 1. Established in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon a parkland and said "do nothing to mar its grandeur, keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who will come after you."

With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment developed from an inherited and unexplained collection of autographed photographs of film stars that frequented my grandfather Dr Ignatz Lewin’s Berlin dental practice from the mid 20’s until he immigrated to the USA in 1938. A Jewish Polish family they fled soon after Krystallnacht and just before Hitler invaded Poland.

Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra performing live at Koko, London from October 2012.

An elderly woman's nightmare experience on a rollercoaster.

When Johnny Håland is kicked out on the street, the colourful but broke 60-something ladies man turns to his son for a place to live. Granddad is a comedy about modern family life when three generations are forced to live under the same roof.

Peter Cusack is one of ninety collaborators that have been commissioned by Matt's Gallery, London, to contribute a film to TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell. Concrete Barges in Rainham was one of the sites Cusack used to record his avant-garde album "Sounds from Dangerous Places," where he recorded the sounds of methane gas escaping the capped landfill just north of the barges.

This is the story of American singer songwriter John Murry who was on the cusp of greatness after the release of his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when his world fell apart.

The tallest building on the west coast was recently completed in one of the most seismically active zones in the world, Aspire to the Sky: The Wilshire Grand Story.

The Chaco region is the most extensive dry forest formation in South America and second biggest. (Naumann & Madariaga, 2003). Between 2000 and 2019 9.5 million hectares of the Chaco region has been deforested. This is a consequence of the lax laws, administrative irregularities, secret pacts between private enterprises and the government, who widespread noncompliance with regulations that have contributed to the relentless expansion of the agricultural and livestock industries. This is not only threatening biodiversity but also changing the frequency of droughts and floods, and relentless native species from regenerating in their habitats. This VR experience speculates a world where collaboration for the common good becomes essential.

Drama set in Twente's textile industry in the 1960s. The young worker Johanna wants to face the social conditions of the time. Their struggle coincides with the economic reconstruction and the arrival of Italy's first workers. Growing tensions between Twente's citizens and the newly arrived Italians lead to the riots in 1961. Along with her new lover Francesco, Johanna is in the eye of the storm.