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
네 명의 소년범들이 감독관의 감시 하에 요크셔 지방의 외딴 시골 마을로 지역 봉사 활동을 하기 위해 도착한다. 마을에는 근친상간으로 태어난 기묘한 외모의 아이들이 소동을 일으키고 소년범들과 감독관은 그들을 사냥하려는 마을 사람들에게 쫓겨 악몽이나 다름없는 생존싸움을 벌인다. 기상천외한 신체 절단과 고문이 시종일관 공포와 함께 ‘썩소’를 자아낸다. (2012년 제16회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
