Tyneside Cinema

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

A cine-poem, taking as a starting point Martin Luther King's 1967 speech, given on receipt of his honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle, and visiting key locations in the city's history of civil resistance.

Two strangers bump into each other on the street, triggering a series of events which lead to a jarring confrontation with reality.

Musician James Edwin Lane explores his personal battle with agoraphobia through the creation of a new genre: the folkloric film ballad. Working with non-professional actors in the mythic landscape of his native county Durham, James builds a film narrative around his original composition, The Heron Man.

Distant memories of the past are recalled as fleeting fragments by a man in his eighties.

When did you last rest? When did you float weightlessly, your aching muscles soothed by lapping water?