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Home (2003) Director: Richard Curson Smith Home is a paranoid, darkly comic, hour-long television film made by the BBC and directed by Richard Curson Smith. He adapted it from a short story by J. G. Ballard in 2003. The plot follows a middle class man who chooses to abandon…

Thanatopsis (short, 1962) Director: Ed Emshwiller Duration: 5mins Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are

Safe (1995) Director: Todd Haynes Safe is a 1995 American psychological horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. Set in 1987, it follows a suburban housewife in Los Angeles whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness which she…

The Trial - 'Le procès' (1962) Director: Orson Welles The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial

Melancholia (short, 2003) Directors: William Basinski, James Elaine Duration: 3mins30s Super-8/video, USA, 2003 "All the world is melancholy, every member in it." –Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy. "Melancholy is a way of thinking, a way of thinking about thinking, and it needs to consume