A film made between 1991 and 1993 as part of an Arts Council/Channel 4 series of commissions collectively entitled 'Eleventh Hour'. The film was not popular with those who commissioned it and was never broadcast, although it was shown in its original format, 16mm print, at a number of festivals. The film is a kind of personal reflection, in three linked sections, on cities and time, and on seeing, recording and the film medium. It is 18' 51" long, with mono sound.
Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning.
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen).
"A group of crazy teenagers break into an abandoned old theater and kill the owners. They dump their bodies in the basement and wake up the Cannibal Demons that have been locked there for over a hundred years.
Billy and Jack are modern-day Robin Hoods who engage in petty scums to earn money for the upkeep of a daycare center for indigent and underprivileged children.
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Based on the real life story of Myrna Diones, a 14 year-old survivor of a brutal massacre of her, her sister and their two cousins in the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon by the very people who should've protect them, policemen .
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.
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