Susannah Gent
History
Susannah Gent is a filmmaker, artist, and lecturer in film production at Sheffield Hallam University. Her films that have gained awards at international film festivals over the past twenty years explore experimental narrative approaches to representing subjectivity.
A hotel provides a metaphor for the psyche in an essay film that investigates the uncanny. A dead boyfriend, a spirit guide, and a character who leaves herself behind populate this journey through space and mind.
Director
A hotel provides a metaphor for the psyche in an essay film that investigates the uncanny. A dead boyfriend, a spirit guide, and a character who leaves herself behind populate this journey through space and mind.
Director
A filmic experiment documenting an fMRI survey that used an image set to investigate the neurological underpinnings of the uncanny.
Director
The filmmaker asks her ten-year-old son about his arsenal of weapons, many of which are intended for other use; the handle of a back brush, juggling batons, and a plastic cricket stump. Despite his enthusiasm for maiming and killing Harvey has no idea why we have wars.
She / I
The film follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders an alienating city underbelly of clubs and free parties. Through recollections of anti-capitalist conversations, historical information about wartime atrocity, and human brutality, she searches for hope in an increasingly frightening, subjective landscape.
Director
The film follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders an alienating city underbelly of clubs and free parties. Through recollections of anti-capitalist conversations, historical information about wartime atrocity, and human brutality, she searches for hope in an increasingly frightening, subjective landscape.
Writer
A dark fairy tale about a little girl who ventures into the "dream world" to rescue her brother but first she has to listen to the story of "The Bone Chair".
Director
A dark fairy tale about a little girl who ventures into the "dream world" to rescue her brother but first she has to listen to the story of "The Bone Chair".
Director
A reflection on pregnancy, taxidermy, and techno music.
The filmmaker skins a fox. The confrontation with death provokes memories and ideas. The editing interweaves these stories in an experiment in the boundaries of narrative comprehension.
Director
The filmmaker skins a fox. The confrontation with death provokes memories and ideas. The editing interweaves these stories in an experiment in the boundaries of narrative comprehension.
Director
A documentary that explores the experience of dance in the free party community of Sheffield.
Producer
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Writer
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Director
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Director
A remarkable journey through the mind of a young man as he battles against mental illness and attempts to come to terms with his confused sexuality and a dark event in the past.
Director
A collaboration with the performance artist Lisa Watts, who explores the physical wrapping potential of bread dough.
Director
A porn film without any people or human sounds.
Writer
Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.
Director
Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.
Writer
Melvyn slowly unravels under the oppression of his overly possessive mother. This story, told from before and after "the event", suggests an interconnectivity between involved parties. Produced for the "10 x 10" series, BBC Bristol.
Director
Melvyn slowly unravels under the oppression of his overly possessive mother. This story, told from before and after "the event", suggests an interconnectivity between involved parties. Produced for the "10 x 10" series, BBC Bristol.
Writer
A woman discovers her bag holds a portal to her past through which she relives an incident of abuse.
Director
A woman discovers her bag holds a portal to her past through which she relives an incident of abuse.
Writer
A "narrative" thread that emerges from a young man’s body connects a series of objects, people and scenarios.
Director
A "narrative" thread that emerges from a young man’s body connects a series of objects, people and scenarios.
