Tom Braidwood

Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her leg in the B-movie game, and pursues her career with a zealous fervor.

El film comienza en 1957, cuando un objeto llameante choca en lo alto de la montaña del desierto de California, trayendo la amenaza de destruir la Tierra. Del platillo volante escapa una criatura asesina, el Ghota, que viene a destruir todas las formas de vida en el planeta. Pero un benévolo alienígena que también viaja en la nave, llamado Urp, se mete dentro del cuerpo del astrónomo local Ted Lewis, y con la ayuda de Tammy, una camarera, intentaran salvar a la humanidad.

This version of "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha" brings the ancient tale to modern day but all the old familiar names are there. As in Cervantes's tale, Don Quixote is persistent in his belief in chivalry and honor. He clings to the old ways and is reluctant to give way to modern behaviors. He sees things in a different way, the smoke stack of a factory is a beast to be conquered, his bicycle is his trusty steed and the hapless man stranded by a transit strike who tries to help suddenly finds himself to be the sidekick to the deluded Quixote.

En el norte de Texas, un joven cae en una grieta del suelo mientras juega con sus amigos y éstos contemplan cómo es atacado por un cáncer negro que también infecta a dos bomberos que intentaban rescatarle. Mientras tanto los agentes del FBI Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) y Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), apartados de los expedientes-x, inspeccionan un edificio federal de Dallas cuando algo inesperado sucede.

Sandy es una adolescente que vive con sus padres y sus dos hermanas pequeñas en un idílico rancho en Canadá. No obstante, ella no es feliz: sus padres la tratan como a una niña. Una noche recibe la visita de su primo Buck, un joven californiano, que llega en un precioso cadillac rojo.

Estamos en el comienzo del siglo XX, todos los grandes pistoleros del legendario Oeste están muertos, a excepción del ladrón Harry Tracy. Harry Tracy es detenido de nuevo al intentar escaparse. Una bella muchacha intercede por él cuando los agentes de la ley le maltratan y éste se enamora de ella. Le promete volverla a ver y consigue escapar de nuevo. Durante su huida conoce a un pintor con el que se aliará para cometer mas atracos, a la vez que intentará dejar atrás su pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)

Limited Engagement (1976) sums up Braidwood's concerns for "media conditioning" and both artist's and public's responsibility for the discourse of images. This film situates the viewer as respondent in its presentation of coded (connotative) media language construction and deconstruction. Limited Engagement utilizes a "psycho-sexual" narrative that revolves around two shots which are (as in Backbone) looped and played off a manipulated sound track. Braidwood's primary concern is to generate a violent and provoking film text that contrasts "the giving of life" with "the taking of life."

Backbone is an essay on structures and metaphors of war, mechanization, dehumanization. It reveals not a paralysis of "guilt" but a reaction (against horror) that asserts itself through command of language. The premise that Braidwood employs is related to the leftist strategy "which asserts that what people believe, and thus the way they will behave, can be changed by the very form of the way in which they are represented," a formalism expressed in the Soviet publication of the twenties, Novy Lef Lef.