Ali Asad

Movies

There’s Always Hope
Cinematography
Author Jonathan Stack, who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner.
Chain
Cinematography
A surreal, psychological horror following a man’s walk home through a series of corridors. Without warning, his journey turns into a terrifying escape through a brutal labyrinth of monsters and traps.
Mad to Be Normal
Director of Photography
The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.
Angel
Director of Photography
Angel, a woman who was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalized after killing her, embarks on a killing spree as an adult. Though sentenced for the rest of her life to an insane asylum, Angel was released due to inside governmental pressure while being pronounced dead in order to avoid public outcry. Now Angel’s on the loose again, and a government agent is ordered to kill her in order to cover up the blunder.
Girl Power
Director of Photography
It's 1997 and into a dizzy world of glamour and false promises comes Cass, a recent graduate. Innocent publishing appears perfect – but behind cool Britannia lurks a much darker place.
The Hooligan Factory
Cinematography
Danny wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his grandfathers flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father Danny Senior
A Lonely Place to Die
Director of Photography
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.
Bonded by Blood
Director of Photography
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
Doghouse
Director of Photography
Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it...
Dead Man Running
Director of Photography
A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Rise of the Footsoldier
Director of Photography
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties.
Rollin' with the Nines
Director of Photography
Too Fine and his friends Finny, Pushy and Rage hope to set up a successful urban underground garage...
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director of Photography
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
Massive Attack: Eleven Promos
Cinematography
Massive Attack are one of the innovative frontrunners within the world of Electronica. Credited with creating the sound of trip-hop, Massive Attack continue to develop new sound worlds with each successive release. Massive Attack has just as dstinctive a vision when it comes to videos as they do for their music. "Eleven Promos" compiles eleven videos from the mind of Massive Attack including such memorable tracks as "Unfinished Sympathy," "Safe from Harm," "Protection," and "Angel." Video directors represented are: Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer and Wiz among others. Other tracklistings: Daydreaming; Be Thankful for What You've Got; Sly; Karmacoma; Risingson; Teardrop.
Batman
Assistant Camera
Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.
James and Lucia
Director of Photography
The last years in the life of James Joyce, as he writes Finnegans Wake and struggles with his fading eyesight and the so-called madness of his beloved daughter, Lucia.