Gutted: A Performance of Masculinity and the Price of it
Jacob Isaiah Kelly’s Gutted examines what it means to be a good man, a good boyfriend and an ideal supporter ...
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The Other Woman: Questions of Morality Around Lust, and Questioning Domesticity
Cameron Lee Horace’s The Other Woman chronicles the life of a septuagenarian woman in a nursing home in 2004, her ...
The Pearl: Greed, Necessity, and Disasters Before and After
Terji Mohr’s The Pearl is a Faroese film that swiftly unfolds the effects of greed clashing with poverty, with the ...
Love is a Fire: Body Horror Through Everyday Things
Sofie Somoroff’s Love is a Fire deals with the horrific body. Following a couple who has just moved into a ...
Grounded: Escaping a Secure Place that is no Longer Secure
Jesse Richards’ Grounded, written by Josephine Croft, is a claustrophobic thriller following a woman who wakes up to find the ...
Through the Stars: Leaving Homes that are Not
Ariel Danziger’s sci-fi Through the Stars, written by Ryan Marth, is a teenager’s act of self-preservation in the face of ...
Unbridaled: Post-Bachelorette Party Disasters in Vermont
Chelsea B. Lockie’s Unbridaled (written by Thom Harp) is the quintessential slapstick comedy. Centred around two best friends and stepsisters, ...
Hypodermic: The Literal and Metaphorical United Under the Skin
Aaron Van Maanen’s Hypodermic takes grief down to a physical level. A character who literally carries it within his body ...
Balloon: Conventions of Violence and Their By-Products
Through the superhero myth, Jeremy Merrifield’s Balloon, co-written with Dave Testa, explores the destructive forces that come into being in ...
What we say, What we mean: Meanings, Perspectives, and Interpretations
Abigail Parmenter’s What we say, What we mean plays with reality to present alternative realities of a couple who are ...
