A psychotropic ghost story about a clairvoyant woman connected to an East London girl murdered in St Clement's Psychiatric Hospital in Nineteen Eighty-Six.
Set in a London pub of a hot summer evening, ‘A Situation’ is an urban tale about the impossible love between Renee, a 63 year old jazz singer, and Yuji, a 25 year old artist. It is the last night of Renee’s performance, and also the last time to see Yuji before she leaves UK for her ill daughter in a foreign country.
May Wong is an imaginary portrait of the dreams of Anna May Wong (1905-61), the first Chinese-American movie star. By the age of 9 she was missing school to go to beg for parts in film studios, despite the opposition of her father. The height of racism against Chinese in America under Hay's Code and Chinese Exclusion Acts formed a backdrop of Wong's tragic love life and frustrated film career. The toll of celebrity on her personal life manifested itself into depression, excessive smoking and drinking. Inspired by the factual aspects of Wong's life, the film is a series of dream sequence exploring Wong's subconscious of her childhood, sexuality and her complex about fame.
Two wives and two soldiers divided by war discuss the horror of the conflict. This heightened short form drama utilises poetic language to open dialogue with its audience concerning the transience of life and the consequences of a fictional war on British soil.
Towards the end of her life Susan explores her relationship with her nineteen year old daughter Samantha. Throughout the film Susan is dying of cancer - although this is not expressed definitively to the audience. Although the main concern of the film is the mother-daughter interaction, a third character is imparted through the dialogue in the form of an absent father.