Susannah Gent

Historia

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.

Películas

Psychotel
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.
Psychotel
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.
Scanner
Director
A filmic experiment documenting an fMRI survey that used an image set to investigate the neurological underpinnings of the uncanny.
Influence of Mars
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.
Unhomely Street
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.
Unhomely Street
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.
Snake Shifter and the Bone Chair
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".
Snake Shifter and 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".
Pregnant Pussy Mash Up
Director
A reflection on pregnancy, taxidermy, and techno music.
The Reynard Diary
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.
The Reynard Diary
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.
The Dance Project
Director
A documentary that explores the experience of dance in the free party community of Sheffield.
Jelly Dolly
Producer
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Jelly Dolly
Writer
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Jelly Dolly
Director
The story of a woman who's inability to end a relationship causes her belly button to mutate, not to mention her mind.
Bedhead
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.
Bun
Director
A collaboration with the performance artist Lisa Watts, who explores the physical wrapping potential of bread dough.
Blue Movie
Director
A porn film without any people or human sounds.
The Bather
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.
The Bather
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.
Melvyn's Pencils
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.
Melvyn's Pencils
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.
Black Bag
Writer
A woman discovers her bag holds a portal to her past through which she relives an incident of abuse.
Black Bag
Director
A woman discovers her bag holds a portal to her past through which she relives an incident of abuse.
Thread
Writer
A "narrative" thread that emerges from a young man’s body connects a series of objects, people and scenarios.
Thread
Director
A "narrative" thread that emerges from a young man’s body connects a series of objects, people and scenarios.