John Harle

Elle Chrystler é uma doutora que acorda em uma cela cúbica futurista, onde é torturada de diversas maneiras pelo General Zakarian, em um Reino Unido que passa por uma sangrenta guerra civil. Com a evolução dos abusos físicos e psicológicos, ela começa a se questionar sobre os eventos que a levaram até a cela.

Um terrível serial killer não se contenta em apenas matar violentamente suas vítimas. Com requintes de crueldade, ele sente um prazer mórbido em transmitir os seus atos insanos para bilhões de pessoas no mundo inteiro, ao vivo pela internet. A polícia tenta capturá-lo, mas o detetive encarregado de investigar o caso tem outra batalha para travar: o seu próprio vício pelo crack.

A vagrant is taken in by a south London surgeon, who subjects him to a series of violent procedures, in the hope of recovering the inner daimon, the spark of light.

A short film made for BBC2, it features insight into the inspiration that Christ Church, Spitalfields gave the composer/performer, John Harle, in the composition of the piece 'Terror and Magnificence'. Writer Iain Sinclair and Professor of Architecture Keith Critchlow contribute with fascinating detail about the structure of the building, the neighbourhood and the overwhelming presence of this huge-scale Hawksmoor church, built after The Great Fire of London.

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud. It was filmed at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, 4 February 1992.