Himself
The first feature film from accomplished short filmmaker Kate Shenton, On Tender Hooks is a documentary film delving into the world of human suspension and the people involved. Kate spends a year following a different people and group of suspenders. Every Sunday they pierce themselves with hooks and hang in mid-air from rigs in a display that challenges the perceptions and squeamishness of even the most hardened. The film is a fly on the wall documentary showing how the ordinary human body can achieve extraordinary things. Beginning with groups in London, and then following events in Rico, Croatia and Oslo, Norway, the film depicts a wide variety of experience and opinions, and delves thoughtfully into a deeply misunderstood practice On Tender Hooks was a self-funded project filmed and edited by director Kate Shenton. Completed in 2012 it is an example of independent film-making at its purest.
The Gimp
Gimp is a black comedy about a gimp, a dominatrix and an alarm clock. It begins in a dark, dingy flat with a gimp handcuffed to a radiator and a dominatrix beating the living daylights out of him. However, after the Dominatrix takes a much-needed break, she chokes to death on a piece of macaroni cheese, leaving the gimp handcuffed to a radiator with no mean of escape. And an alarm clock on repeated snooze...
Rats
Un variopinto grupo de delincuentes juveniles y sus supervisores viajan hacia un remoto pueblo de Yorkshire, Mortlake, para realizar allí un fin de semana de servicios comunitarios. Pero Mortlake está orgullosa de ser una comunidad cerrada, que apenas necesita nada del mundo exterior, por lo que los roces entre locales y forasteros no se hacen esperar. Un pequeño accidente desencadenará una espiral de violencia que arrastrará a todos los implicados a una pesadilla repleta de sangre y humor negro como el azabache.
