Gaffer
John Q. Archibald é um homem comum, que trabalha em uma fábrica e vive feliz com sua esposa Denise e seu filho Michael. Até que Michael fica gravemente doente, necessitando com urgência de um transplante de coração para sobreviver. Sem ter condições de pagar pela operação e com o plano de saúde de sua família não cobrindo tais gastos, John Q. se vê então numa luta contra o tempo pela sobrevivência de seu filho. Em uma atitude desesperada, ele então decide tomar como refém todo o setor de emergência de um hospital, passando a discutir uma solução para o caso com um negociador da polícia e com um impaciente chefe de polícia, que deseja encerrar o caso o mais rapidamente possível.
Gaffer
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
Gaffer
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
