All Films

The final part of a trilogy of films started in 1998, exploring the filming of projected light through distorting lenses. Shot and edited on Super-8, the film features a carefully constructed electronic soundtrack made with Helliwell's tone generators.

Projecting the real on the imaginary. This single channel video installation explores notions of perception and reflection when juxtaposing the self and its empty image. A rhythmic mixture between stop-motion and cubism.

A documentary film about gender identity and the struggle for social change as seen through the eyes of one self-styled transgender warrior. As Joelle struggles to carve out a place for herself in the world, she urges viewers to see the common struggle of humanity and the interconnectedness of all life on the planet. Viewers watching the film will not only have their view of gender challenged, but their take on what it means to be one person fighting for change and freedom.

America’s favorite blond doll, shows what happens when memories get in the way of self-love and moving on.

An erotic narrative that uses poetry, montage, and imagery to explore the mind of Maria, a volatile Latina poet/pyromaniac who returns to Mexico and her Mayan roots.

Spikey has two mommies. A lighthearted look at the joys and anxieties of lesbian parenting.

Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught with projections. A ride very much in the present, but due to history and family history, also a journey into and out of time.- Ernie "The GOAT" Gehr

Experimental short video which is a prayer of reconciliation juxtaposing dancers with disabilities with the narrator seated in his wheelchair.

In this film, the charismatic figure of the horror world, Yô Takahashi, who laid the foundation of Japanese horror as the screenwriter for "Ring" and "Don't Look Up," finally makes his directorial debut in the horror genre. Joining him are Yudai Yamaguchi, known for "Battlefield Baseball," Kei Horie, who gained immense popularity as Gao Yellow in "Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger" and received acclaim overseas for his directorial debut "Growing Growing," and Toru Moriyama, a stalwart of TBS dramas. Together, these talented directors from the horror world ensure a film that is no less impressive than its predecessors!

K, for Kabylie, is a chronicle in several parts. Chronicle of a fragmented childhood between two countries, memory shredded by separation and abandonment. Chronicle also of the return, of a country broken by the central power (the demonstrations of the region of Tizi Ouzou in particular made tens of deaths), loneliness of the women and the children who fight each day for their survival. This is my family trajectory but it is above all that of a country with "murderous power" as all Kabyle children and adults sing.

The directors include Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of the TBS drama "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Ryuta Miyake of Fuji TV's "Scary True Stories," and Keisuke Toyoshima of "Ghost vs. Alien," gathering the young talents of horror films. The cast features Maki Horikita, Mai Kitajima, and Kei Horie, among others.

The Hooley Dooleys: Wonderful

12 New York City LGBTQ youth create self portraits on film with the help of director Barbara M Bickart In this patchwork quilt vision of today's queer youth we touch on issues such as homophobia, racism, gender bias, age bias and many others.

At a dance club our hero takes a break from the floor and goes into the washroom only to have a close encounter of the glory hole kind.

In this experimental film we see a series of NYC Gay men with their cats.

Alex and Gooch are runaways trying to make a life for themselves. They find shelter with an older man and earn money hustling in the Bronx. When Alex's enlisted brother, Jonathan, comes to save him; Alex realizes that home maybe worse than the streets.

Here is an account of how the cross of Christ came to be the symbol and icon it is today. It presents a close-up look at an inscribed piece of wood, believed to be the actual headboard of Christ's cross.

A beautiful documentary film about the Noh stages, juxtaposing the Noh Performance and the interview with the master Shoroku Sekine and his son Yoshito Sekine. The Sekine family belongs to the Kanze School and they always respect to the traditions not only on the Noh stage but also in their daily lives.

Using found footage, this portrait of self falls in from somewhere over the moon, turns childhood around, pushes through with tunes of a time, and lands in wild fields of plenty.

Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which bereaved people remember and commemorate their deceased family members and friends, by visiting and tending their graves at a Victorian cemetery in London. It is a common belief in the West that the bereaved have to ‘let go’ and ‘get over the loss’ of their deceased kin, in order to return to a ‘normal’ life. In contrast to these cultural norms, many survivors maintain strong social relationships with their dead. “Cultivating Death” portrays some visitors of Kensal Green Cemetery in West-London, as they actively sustain these continuing bonds by arranging and tending the graves of their deceased, talking to them and bringing them gifts. They thereby speak frankly about this important aspect of their mourning for which the cemetery constitutes a unique environment.

A concert film with performances from the Japanese punk bands Zoe, Poikkeus, Deconstruction, Framtid, Abraham Cross, Disclose, Defector, Life, Reality Crisis, and Effigy.

Outtakes from Finisterre (from A London Trilogy) that document the artist’s work, some of which is no longer in situ.

A nocturnal journey through the English countryside is imagined through the lenses of a succession of CCTV cameras. The work sleepwalks through a series of empty lanes and meadows, and a sense that all is well with the world prevails until the eerie emptiness of a dual carriageway shifts the mood from benign slumber to postapocalyptic anxiety. Available on Vimeo as a seven-minute three-screen version.

The director explains the concept and shooting method used in the film “Direct Light”.