Regarder Aft

A witty, whimsical meditation on free will, identity, and the afterlife with a touch of Franz Liszt.

Dolly Jacob grabs hold of two long straps dangling down from the shadows of the big top. She hoists herself up...and begins to fly. From 50 feet below, what the audience can't see are the lines on Dolly's smiling face. Few of us have ever given a second thought as to what happens to these artists 'off the wire' after they've spent their lives entertaining and inspiring us. This film takes a unique look at a tightly drawn community in Sarasota, Florida, one with a deep value system that seems almost out of place today. With humour and warmth, these bigger-than-life characters are determined to support each other through thick and thin, at a time when they need it most: the end of their careers as Circus performers. When the march of time forces them to step out of the ring, After Circus depicts how performers survive without their lifeblood of the glittering spotlight and fervent applause.

In July 2021, after the last foreign soldiers had left Afghanistan, the film team traveled to Kabul to portrait female singers. No one could have guessed at the time that this would be the last opportunity to do so. A year later, most of them have left...

Set in a Lynchesque inspired world of dream imagery, drama, bespoke sound design, music and chanteuse style singing; the iconic avant-garde performer David Hoyle is HEDDA in this one-person, cinematic theatre reimagining that moves past the obvious to create a darkly surreal show that doesn’t reduce it to our binary traditions. As Ibsen said ‘Hedda is first and foremost a human being’

Close to 80,000 Syrian refugees live in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, the second-largest such camp in the world. Fifty-eight percent of its inhabitants are children. After Spring immerses us in the rhythms of the camp, the role of the aid workers, and the daily lives of two families as they contemplate an uncertain future.

A film by Leslie Singer

Young Northumbrian folk-singing siblings Rachel and Becky Unthank take a journey around England from spring to autumn 2010 to experience its living folk dance traditions in action. They lead us through the back gardens and narrow streets of towns and villages from Newcastle to Penzance to discover the most surprising of dances, ceremonies, rituals and festivities that mark the turning of the seasons and the passing of the year.

Four stories, represented by each season, with diverse groups of people and the challenges they face after a zombie apocalypse. Trying to create a new life under the most dire of circumstances and dealing with letting go of their former lives, while coping with the constant danger of the infected. Will they survive? Will they want to?

An eight-year montage road movie on a road to nowhere, shot through the windshield of a car. The shortest film of the year, covering a time span of infinite repition.

Set in the not so distant future a military veteran recounts his experiences on the front lines of a catastrophic world war. Constantly haunted by his past and unable to forgive himself, our protagonist must once again relive the terrible things he's done for a prying documentary film crew.

Afternoons with Max & Ruby focuses on an outdoor theme.

An undefinable plastic object drifts through blue waves. A faded clothespin bobs up and down in a pickle jar. Objects of a bygone daily life are brought back to the city. Disruption. Discomfort. In the form of small interventions in public space, the redundant objects become active objects of disruption whose potential for resistance is playfully and humorously explored in Afterlives.

When their only daughter suddenly dies, a grieving mother and father are forced to confront their once competitive relationship over her - and their failing relationship with each other.

The story revolves around the ups and downs of marriage, the pit falls, the joys and the revelations. An "everyman" and a woman, meet, marry, divorce and he goes looking for "that perfect woman". He discovers the "perfect woman" was the woman he had. They both discover that they really can live happily after forever.

A man tends to his garden and to his worries.

A futuristic drama about five survivors trying to make sense of a New World after a devastating urban catastrophe challenges their basic human needs. Set in a bleak, post-urban landscape in the aftermath of the Third World War, the film presents a strangely limited environment where a single woman and four men are forced to communicate without words as a result of destructive gasses from the war. When their pasts are erased by the war, they are forced to recreate their lives both individually and collectively.

Two short films, the first NOT about purity itself, whatever that might be, but rather an equivalent of the process of searching for purity in the mind ... the second film, then, thought's rebound from that.

"after + math (((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop" ... this my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, TV, etc. - what CAN be done with it? / The idealism of moving-visual-thought-process, the very raw meat of brain, trying to absorb and transform "the unthinkable": this, then, that second harvest of healthier gain ... retrieving patriotism, even, from blasphemous commerce. (Quote Webster's 7 Coll.)

After the death of her beloved husband Neil Chayet, famed CBS Boston radio host of Looking at the Law, Martha Chayet struggles to adapt to life as a widow. When she steps out of the house to run errands, it's all by herself. When she cooks, it's just for one. Things are just a little bit quieter around the house these days. Meanwhile, the filmmaker is grieving the sudden passing of his father. As he films Martha’s day-to-day life, both come to the realization that although we may never overcome our grief, we can learn to embrace it, welcome it, and channel it to preserve the legacies of our loved ones.

A Modern Romance Tale of two lovers, one of which looks back at the relationship throughout the years.