Gary Hill

biography: Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica, CA) has worked with a broad range of  media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance –  since the early 1970’s, producing a large body of single-channel  videos, mixed-media installations, and performance work. His longtime  work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging  from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums  to ontological space and viewer interactivity. (Vimeo)

Live

original_name: Live

origin_country: FR DE

title: Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

overview: In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary between words and comprehension, the physicality of text, and figurative interactivity.

character: Himself

original_title: Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

title: Skaterdater

overview: The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes interested in her. This causes a rift with the other boys, who challenges him to a skating duel that goes down a hilly street. The young boy loses. However, he gets the girl, and shortly, a few other girls are seen and become interested in the boys, too. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

original_title: Skaterdater

title: Electronic Linguistic

overview: The work’s images appear as visualizations of electronically generated sounds. Initially, small pulsating pixel structures occasionally appear on the black screen. These monadic forms become larger, ultimately filling the picture plane and pulsating ever more intensely.

original_title: Electronic Linguistic

title: Happenstance (part one of many parts)

overview: The associative stream of images and sounds treats the word as an abstract structure. Spoken and written text flows from image to image, morphing into the shape of a circle, triangle or square. The robotic voice mechanically decomposes the geometric word formation, depriving it of its original meaning, finding a new one.

original_title: Happenstance (part one of many parts)

title: Bits

overview: Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we continue looking, they break down into seemingly amorphous constructions. We see details, textures and patterns from curtains, whose form responds to air movements and whose color alters through manipulation. Through or behind the veil-like fabric we can make out plants. As our gaze is increasingly directed outwards, we momentarily discern trees, branches, twigs and undergrowth before they vanish into electronic interferences. Hill uses video shots of these motifs as a basis for his artistic experiments in electronic alienation, overriding the colors and tone values to such an extent that the recorded structures become distorted and dissolve beyond the limits of their identifiability.

original_title: Bits

title: Equal Time

overview: In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a minimalist arrangement, whereby two identical panels with grid patterns, starting respectively on the left and right side of the monitor, slowly move across the screen against a black background to the opposite side. As the panels overlap they produce moiré patterns. Each is associated with the voice of a different speaker, whose voices emerge from the left or right stereo channel. As soon as the panels completely overlap, the words of the two texts merge and the two voices, now in unison, produce a phasing sound similar to the visual moiré pattern of the panels.

original_title: Equal Time

title: Around & About

overview: “In 1979-80, I was teaching in the Media Studies Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, filling in for Woody and Steina Vasulka, who had left for Santa Fe. Midway in the year I abruptly had to leave my apartment and move into my office—a relatively small space with a desk, a couple of chalkboards, a couch, plus everything I owned, which was mostly media equipment. About all I could do was work, if only to keep from feeling claustrophobic (moving things around seemed to make the space bigger). Around & About came out of a ‘what if’ scenario. What if I were to cut images to every syllable of a spoken text? (A way to keep me busy?) A daunting task in the time of U-matic machines and sloppy controllers. I did it all manually, hitting the edit button for every syllable. With each rewind I would listen and anticipate the coming syllable, learning as I went along to adjust for delayed reaction."

original_title: Around & About

title: Processual Video

overview: This piece was originally planned by the artist as a reading for the Viewpoint series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “It was an attempt to circumscribe my work in the structure of a reading,” Hill explains. Processual Video is minimal with regards to an “image” but quite complex in terms of the interplay of language and image. In fact, the image as such functions more as a tracking device. On a black screen, a white line slowly rotates on its own axis, seemingly generating a spoken text that refers to itself. Depending on its position, the line gets narrower, then wider, finally dissipating horizontally into thin white strokes. While this is happening, Hill reads a text that triggers associations and wordplays with the precise position and detail of the continuously changing line.

original_title: Processual Video

title: Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

overview: “The beginning of a remake of an earlier work [Soundings, 1979] in which I wanted to extend the reflexivity of each text in relation to the interaction between different physical substances—in this case, sand—and the speaker cone. A loudspeaker fills the screen and I begin to speak, referring to the speaker itself. This is followed by more declarations of what I am doing, ‘…a hand enters the picture….’ A hand filled with sand enters the picture and slowly releases it into the loudspeaker’s cone. Every nuance of speech vibrates the speaker’s cone (or membrane), bouncing the grains of sand into the air. The more I speak about what is happening, the more it changes—or feeds back into—the movement and patterns of the sand."

title: Sums & Differences

overview: The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an African drum. These motifs are altered through digitalization, solarization, and interframe switching. As they alternate, the images are accompanied acoustically by simple tonal routines of the instruments shown – little sequences of sound on the keyboard, some drum beats, a brief trill of the flute. The solarization effect of the images changes with the sounds. The work intensifies as it progresses, and images and sounds succeed one another ever more rapidly until a melody of the three instruments emerges. The frequency of the video images continues to increase, with the result that the images pulsate ever more quickly until they gradually overlay one another, producing a cinematographic effect through interferences. Parallel to this, the audio frequency of the melody rises until fundamental tones form, lasting several seconds.

original_title: Sums & Differences

title: Commentary

overview: “Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in viewer looking slightly up at the screen making simple gestures into the camera. The mood is ambiguous as I seem to be watching a mirror, covering my face, reaching out to the camera, obstructing my head with a harsh (interrogator’s) lamp, and maybe more. The image, distorted through a fisheye lens, gives the impression of a concave monitor, as if the whole act were seen through a peephole or pinhole camera. In some sense I ‘play’ both sides of the screen—performer and viewer attempting to ‘connect’ either way. As ‘commentary’ it’s two-way, making it also a commentary on commentary.”

original_title: Commentary

title: Bathing

overview: In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density.

original_title: Bathing

title: Air Raid

overview: The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image. This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images found in the everyday: a lawnmower, the wrapping of fruit with tin foil, a cement mixer, record player, television, and among others, the eerie image of an air raid siren. A negative double of the image horizontally slides away every so often as if ruptured by the violence of the sound. The last image shows a butterfly opening and closing its wings as if it were tuning the only silent segment of the work.

original_title: Air Raid

title: AXIS

overview: “I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many studies toward using the camera in a highly physical way.”

original_title: AXIS

title: Picture Story

overview: “A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A sequence of words—hierarchically ordered from the utilitarian (functions and processes of the tools being used to make the piece) to the more abstract and conceptual, ‘content,’ ‘concept,’ and ‘vision’—become the building blocks of a linguistic picture story.”

original_title: Picture Story

title: Blind Spot

overview: Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the street in the small Algerian neighborhood of Belsunce in Marseille, France. As the camera zooms in slowly on its subject, the imagery is interrupted by longer and longer segments of black/silence, in essence slowing the scene down so that it almost reaches the photographic.

original_title: Blind Spot

title: URA ARU

overview: Recorded on location in Japan, this work was inspired by the notion of “acoustic palindromes,” aural versions of written palindromes, located in the Japanese language. Hill creates this palindromic world as a site for excavation, uncovering new meanings and images by focusing on reversals and double reversals of spoken words and analogous actions. What ultimately can be seen as an inter-textual weaving of language, image, and time (or what Hill calls, “origami time”) exposes the archetypal protagonists of Noh drama: god, man, woman, lunatic, demon. These dramatis personae appear in and around a series of conceptual vignettes based on the Noh play Lady Aoi.

original_title: URA ARU

title: Resolution

overview: A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms “stair-steps,” and then, approaching horizontality, it intermittently breaks up, literally between the (scan) lines. Continuing, the line reconstitutes itself as it reaches its initial vertical position.

original_title: Resolution

title: Solstice d’Hiver

overview: Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded in real time and was taped December 21, between the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. At the beginning the camera moves in slow increments around a sun bathed room, gently embracing objects contained within as if seen for the first and last time. The scene is almost silent, with the occasional sound of the autofocus on the camera lens readjusting as it searches for a subject to focus on. A figure, the artist, enters into the frame and with determined slowness places a record on a record player. It is a sound composition by the avant garde composer Alvin Lucier entitled, “I am Sitting in a Room."

original_title: Solstice d’Hiver

title: Rock City Road

overview: Recorded in Woodstock, New York, Rock City Road incorporates multiple levels of rescanned images of walking on different surfaces, including pavement and snow-covered terrain. The images have been rescanned and manipulated using reel-to-reel videotape recorders. Editing actions—fast forward, reverse, pause, as well as “scratching” through and between frames—remain present as the sounds they make. Noises inherent to the medium, they function as metaphoric links between the texture/materiality of the world and that of electronic media.

original_title: Rock City Road

title: Mesh

overview: A fixed color camera is slightly defocused on the wire mesh of a window screen. Outside the window the leaves of trees are moving with the wind. The images, about one-half second each, are edited directly to the master tape at intervals based on the set-up time of each edit. The sound is of the room itself, which is, for the most part, the editing button being pushed down for each edit. With each edit the wire mesh and background colors shift slightly. The work is about ‘meshing’ time and view

original_title: Mesh

title: Objects with Destinations

overview: Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of short sequences in which a single object moves through a series of overlapping transformations. These are electronically altered in such a way that their coloration and contours continuously morph. As the transparent images are superimposed one upon the other and faded in and out, they become slightly displaced, giving the impression that the objects are “wandering” across the image plane. In some sequences, the contours and colors of the objects dissociate, or newly arising color fields spread across the pictorial surface. The superimpositions and cross-dissolves result in a minimal amount of action, consistent with the ‘destinations’ implied in the work’s title.

original_title: Objects with Destinations

title: Black/White/Text

overview: Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black and white rectangles, embedded one within another against a black background, are generated through a closed-circuit system: a camera’s signal is inverted and displayed on a monitor that the same camera is framing. The camera, as it were, sees itself seeing itself seeing itself and so on. (It’s the inversion itself that produces the alternating black and white rectangles). The number of rectangles is based on a precise score involving seven channels of chanted text (all in the voice of the artist)—a kind of “language canon.”

original_title: Black/White/Text

title: Full Circle

overview: “The image plane is divided into three sections. In the lower half, a close-up of two hands form a circle out of a metal rod. The upper half of the screen is vertically divided into two parts. On the right, a concurrent view of bending the rod with the entire body is visible in high contrast black and white. On the left is the green trace of an oscilloscope. A sine wave tone is first heard corresponding with the static green trace, a horizontal line. I drone a ‘similar’ tone that together with the sine wave changes the trace into a wavering circle. The steadier the sound I make, the steadier the circle. As I expend more energy bending the rod to ‘copy’ the electronically generated circle, my voice struggles to maintain pitch. Consequently the circle vibrates, collapses and morphs into multiple forms, mirroring the strain of my voice."

original_title: Full Circle

title: Goats & Sheep

overview: Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands and arms are framed in one, and the back of the head and top of the shoulders in the other. This latter view catches the hands when they refer to the head during signing. For Goats and Sheep, Hill changed the color image into black-and-white, re-recorded his own voice and “re-synchronized” it to the original signing. The stereo field is used to double the voice with about a second of delay added to the sound. This doubling mirrors the hands and numerous references and repetitions heard in the text.

title: Elements

overview: One of the earlier works Hill produced on the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, Elements combines abstract “landscapes” with fragmented syllabic language. Undulating topological forms superimpose themselves on one another, changing their shape and direction of movement.

title: Disturbance (among the jars)

overview: Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The structure of the piece is based around the metaphor of fragmentation, more specifically, that of a broken sentence reflecting the original condition of many of the texts. In a completely white room lit with several thousand watts of light, a veranda with seven straight-back wooden chairs faces a low pedestal of the same height on which seven 27-inch bare cathode ray tubes (display bulbs of video monitors) are positioned to form a fragmented line. The positions of the monitors can be seen in a multiplicity of ways.

title: Figuring Grounds

overview: Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown, New York, where Hill’s Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia), 1984, was also taped. Facing one another, Quasha and Stein begin vocalizing from the very grain of language, and the improvisational search for voices passes through recognizable swarms of phonemes with a possible word or phrase briefly coming into focus now and then. Camera movements and continual focal play mirror the highly nuanced vocal expression, tightly coupled with body and facial movements. The voices build upon one another, rising and falling in volume and pitch, sometimes in unison, other times in “conversation,” in a seeming attempt to let the primary roots of language speak for themselves.

title: Observaciones Sobre los Colores

overview: Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color, Part 1 (1951), consisting of 88 segments, in real time over a period of 78 minutes. Hill provided a modified version of the book with all proper names, philosophical terms and scientific language replaced with phonetically spelled versions.

title: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

overview: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance" and as "the art experience par excellence." The claim is expanded upon, suggesting that over time it will be heralded as the most influential work of art of all time.

title: Bits

title: Primary

overview: The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and repeatedly articulated. The color of the screen switches from red to blue to green at a quickened rate. Utilizing the same rate, the spoken words, “red,” “blue,” and “green,” are cut together into syllabic combinations of the three words making up the asynchronous sound track. The individual words, barely intelligible as spoken, are more easily “read” on the uniformly moving lips. (Quasha, George and Charles Stein. An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009, p. 589)

title: Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

overview: DVD insert of monograph Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View containing a compilation of Hill's performance art.

overview: This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in Wonderland asks her omniscient father why things get in a muddle. They then talk on a metalinguistic level. A glimpse through the looking glass reveals an inversion of the customary order of things. The father ingests the smoke from his pipe, Alice does not so much blink her eyelids momentarily open as stare wide-eyed, and the playing cards fall out of the air in an orderly manner into the girl’s hand. (Gary Hill: Selected Works and catalogue raisonné, edited by Holger Broeker)

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

overview: In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more, making the video something of a “transcreation.”  The “reader” begins in the liquidity of the text almost as if he were waking from drowning.  Images of the sea ravishing the shore – small cliffs of sand eroding and collapsing – are inter-cut with extreme close-ups of text and the texture of the page and book itself being flooded with ocean waves.  In scene after scene the reader attempts to re-enter the book only to find himself a part of intense dreams and hallucinations.

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

title: Windows

overview: Silent or with minimal sound, Hill's early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura and image processing devices. Of these tapes, Hill has written that "much of the subject matter and the expressionistic method of working underline and in some sense parody the traditional medium of painting." In Windows, the image of windows in a darkened room is digitized, densely layered, and otherwise abstracted in a series of graphic compositions.

title: Earth Pulse

overview: A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a reel-to-reel video player—a frozen line of noise (an asynchronous frame) cuts through the image reinforcing the sense of physicality. The sounding form is eventually set in an electronically generated landscape with temple-like forms of undulating feedback. Further processing of the voice and additional rhythmic electronic sounds are suggestive of ritual.

title: Mirror Road

overview: In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous structures move across the monitor like drifting clouds, changing color and direction. From time to time structures of fantastic color landscapes move past one another in the lower and upper halves of the picture (the rearview mirror takes up the upper half of the frame), only to be recombined into an amorphous unity.

title: Primarily Speaking

overview: This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name.  The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half.  A changing background is formed by colorful, highly graphic patterns reminiscent of TV test signals and various monochrome surfaces.  Two smaller rectangles appear on the surface, in which video sequences are running.  The two image strands show landscapes, interiors, objects, graphical images and text that are sometimes used in contrast, and on other occasions the same image can be seen mirrored in each rectangle.  They are accompanied by Hill’s recitation of a long text, whose syllabic sequence determines the rhythm of the images (the screen changes with each uttered syllable).  His voice comes alternately out of the left and right stereo channels functioning like a dialogue.  This is broken into sections by a singing, but electronically altered, voice.

title: Mouthpiece

overview: Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage controlled oscillators, filters, sequencer)

title: Site/Recite (a prologue)

overview: With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled notes, skulls — in a series of seamless edits that present a continuous flow of detailed close-ups. This taxonomy of dispossession, "little deaths that pile up," is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic self-consciousness and visual experience. Through the window of this text, the objects on the table come to model how consciousness affixes itself to material manifestations and how memory is constituted by the collection of empty vessels. Site/Recite is a prologue for Which Tree, an interactive videodisc installation that presents viewers with a maze of interconnected branch points, allowing them to wander through its forest of images and words to discover the "texts" of their own thinking patterns.

title: Tale Enclosure

overview: Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic, linguistically inspired chant-performance by George Quasha and George Stein, the camera wanders from mouth to face to hands to figure in an open-ended visual search. The performers use the body as an acoustic instrument of sound and abstract utterances.

title: Videograms

overview: 1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound  Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device that enables Hill to sculpt electronic forms on the screen. Each "videogram" relates literally or conceptually to Hill's accompanying spoken text, which is visually translated into abstract shapes. Hill writes, "The vocabulary and precision of this tool allowed me to expand the notion of an 'electronic linguistic' through textual narrative blocks created specifically for the electronic vocabulary inherent in the Rutt/Etra device."

title: Soundings

overview: Two color video cameras, two microphones, Dave Jones prototype modules (input amplifiers, variable soft/hard keyers, output amplifier, analog-to-digital converter, bit switch, digital-to-analog converter), assorted speaker cones, enclosed speaker, sand, large spike nails, lighter fluid, lighter, amplifier, wire, and water.

title: Pacifier

title: Project Tesla

overview: This rarely screened film was used to raise funds for the making of Energy and How to Get It. High-energy physicist Robert Golka was granted a lease on an airplane hangar once used to build B-29 bombers to further his experiments on ball lightning and free energy distribution. By the time Robert Frank and his crew arrived, Golka, his frisky older love interest Agnes Moon, and his dogs Nitro and Proton were facing eviction. — Museum of Modern Art

title: Cutting Corners Creates More Sides

overview:
Two channel video installation.
 A spoken text …rummages through piles of surplus; boxed accouterments and that unaccounted for miscellanea… and the uneasiness of language itself as it grapples with the whereabouts of the necessary words. The narrative debris morphs through manifolds of optical glass with each utterance marking points along the way. On a long, black tableaux two cameras with little or no depth of field, sentence by sentence cut through a mysterious world of a seemingly inconsequential lineup of objects, tools, parts, bits and the unidentifiable forgotten --whatever might have been close at hand becomes enfolded in a richly colored crystalline doppelgänger image. For each sentence and “drilling” through the objects, the cameras’ parallaxes have been adjusted for a different cross section—the point where momentarily a continuous horizontal view is possible only to then quickly deconstruct as quickly as it formed.

title: Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

title: Skaterdater

title: Electronic Linguistic

title: Happenstance (part one of many parts)

title: Bits

title: Around & About

title: Equal Time

title: Sums & Differences

title: Bathing

title: URA ARU

title: Rock City Road

title: Objects with Destinations

title: Blind Spot

title: Air Raid

title: AXIS

title: Black/White/Text

title: Processual Video

title: Picture Story

title: Solstice d’Hiver

title: Commentary

title: Full Circle

title: Elements

title: Goats & Sheep

title: Figuring Grounds

title: Resolution

title: Mesh

title: Disturbance (among the jars)

title: Observaciones Sobre los Colores

title: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

title: Bits

title: Primary

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

title: Incidence of Catastrophe

title: Windows

title: Earth Pulse

title: Mirror Road

title: Primarily Speaking

title: Mouthpiece

title: Site/Recite (a prologue)

title: Tale Enclosure

title: Videograms

title: Soundings

title: Pacifier

title: Project Tesla

title: Cutting Corners Creates More Sides


Callan Potter

biography: Callan Potter is a Canadian actor known for roles in projects such as The Other Kingdom (2016), Riot Girls (2019), and the recent hit series Heated Rivalry (2025).

The Other Kingdom

overview: Astral is a fairy princess who lives in the secret fairy kingdom of Athenia which is full of mythical creatures. While that sounds amazing, Astral likes to fantasize about living in the human world and attending high school. Once she leaves her home to do just that, she has to try to fit in and keep her identity a secret.

character: Tristan

original_name: The Other Kingdom

origin_country: CA US

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Heated Rivalry

overview: Two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey are bound by ambition, rivalry, and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery. Over the next eight years, as they chase glory on the ice, they struggle to navigate their feelings for each other. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can’t ignore, they must decide if there’s room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile – and powerful – as real love.

character: Hayden Pike

original_name: Heated Rivalry

Murdoch Mysteries

overview: A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

character: Ian Blair

original_name: Murdoch Mysteries

character: Alexander Deverill-Deverill

Workin' Moms

overview: Four women juggle love, careers, and parenthood. They support, challenge, and try not to judge each other as life throws them curveballs. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression, or an unplanned pregnancy – they face both the good and bad with grace and humour.

character: Seamus

original_name: Workin' Moms

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title: Zombie Town

overview: Amy and Mike unearth a centuries-old curse when they decide to watch an exclusive film reel. The duo must track down an infamous filmmaker and navigate a town of hungry zombies to save the world.

character: Chad

original_title: Zombie Town

title: Riot Girls

overview: In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival.

character: Todd's Titan

original_title: Riot Girls

title: The Swap

overview: Based on the book by Megan Shull, The Swap follows the adventures of a rhythmic gymnast named Ellie with a make-it-or-break-it competition, and the younger brother named Jack in a hockey family who's vying for a varsity spot on his school team. But when a simple text causes the two to swap bodies, their paths take an unexpected cross.

character: Gunner

original_title: The Swap

title: Bruno & Boots: This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall

overview: Headmaster Sturgeon has had enough. In an attempt to put an end to Bruno and Boots high jinks, he declares that they are to be separated; no shared classes and, most certainly, no shared dorm room. This punishment is worse than anything the boys could have imagined. However, if Bruno and Boots can alienate every boy in Dormitory 3, Sturgeon will be forced to re-unite them. The plot almost succeeds, but one misstep forces the girls from the Scrimmage Academy for Education and Awakening to move into Macdonald Hall, leaving Bruno and Boots back where they started.

character: Boots

title: Bruno & Boots: Go Jump in the Pool

overview: Based on The Bestselling MacDonald Hall Book Series by Gordon Korman. Bruno Walton and Melvin "Boots" O'Neal are the most infamous troublemakers at MacDonald Hall - a supposedly prestigious school for boys. Bruno, the brains behind the operation, has managed without fail to convince Boots to tag along on his countless prank operations whether it includes stealing a rival school's mascot, switching the school's flag or invading Miss Scrimmage's Academy for Girls Education and Awakening across the road. Despite their ongoing pranks, Bruno and Boots LOVE their school and are willing to do anything to protect it.

original_title: Bruno & Boots: Go Jump in the Pool

title: Bruno & Boots: The Wizzle War

overview: The Board of Directors launch an experimental educational program, introducing authoritarian Assistant Headmaster Mr. Wizzle to the boys of Macdonald Hall and the miserable Assistant Headmistress Ms. Peabody to whip the girls of the Scrimmage Academy into shape. With new dress codes, psychological testing, and early-morning wake-up calls with track laps as punishment, the boys and girls decide Wizzle and Peabody have to go. But how? As they pull out all the stops, they ultimately turn to the theory that “love conquers all” to oust the pair once and for all.

character: Boots O'Neil

original_title: Bruno & Boots: The Wizzle War

title: No One Would Tell

overview: Single mom Laura Collins has had a history of rocky relationships, so when her daughter Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob, Laura is thrilled with what she sees. But it soon becomes clear that Rob has a darker, possessive side. Then Sarah goes missing.

character: Rob Tennison

original_title: No One Would Tell

title: Eli Roth's Be Mine: A VR Valentine's Slasher

overview: A young woman whose previous boyfriends have all met grisly ends, on or around Valentine's Day, finally gets the chance to turn the tides on the killer with the help of her hapless college pals.

character: Dash

title: Out Standing

overview: Officer Sandra Perron resigns from the Canadian military after a controversial photo surfaces. Adapting to civilian life amidst an investigation, she denies abuse allegations despite evidence suggesting mistreatment within her unit.

character: Smith

original_title: Out Standing

place_of_birth: Stratford, Ontario, Canada

title: Zombie Town

media_type: movie

title: Riot Girls

title: The Swap

title: Bruno & Boots: Go Jump in the Pool

title: Bruno & Boots: The Wizzle War

title: No One Would Tell

title: Out Standing

The Other Kingdom

media_type: tv


Masayasu Takahashi

Pro Hunter

job: Screenplay

department: Writing

original_name: プロハンター

original_language: ja

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Cliff of Death

overview: Ogata is an employee of a securities company. He is selected as the president's secretary because of his ability. However, he has a romantic relationship with the president's daughter, Michiyo. The president sees this as a problem and transfers Ogata to the Hokkaido branch. Ogata takes revenge on the president. Ogata, who killed the company president who was recovering from a cerebral hemorrhage, marries his daughter. He tries to make the company and property his own, but... It depicts an ambitious man who will do anything to achieve his goal.

original_title: 死の断崖

title: The Tusk of Evil

overview: Arms export organization Vs murder detective from the middle East!

original_title: 兇悪の牙

title: Ryota from Mandalaya

overview: Live-action adaptation of Jun Hatanaka's manga "Mandaraya no Ryota".

original_title: まんだら屋の良太

title: The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop

overview: A jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the Metropolitan Police Department transforms into a geisha to catch the criminal.

original_title: 迷探偵記者羽鳥雄太郎と駆け出し女刑事IV

title: Sukeban mafia: Chijoku

overview: Two tough young street hustlers, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and prostitution...

original_title: スケバンマフィア　恥辱

title: Cliff of Death

title: The Tusk of Evil

title: Ryota from Mandalaya

original_title: 迷探偵記者羽鳥雄太郎と駆け出し女刑事IV

title: Sukeban mafia: Chijoku

known_for_department: Writing


Fabrizio Frizzi

Domenica In

character: Self

original_name: Domenica In

original_language: it

Buona la prima!

overview: Buona la prima! is an Italian television series.

character: Ospite

original_name: Buona la prima!

Warhorses

overview: Gigi Proietti's return to television with a show all his own that will see him perform his "warhorses", confront himself with unpublished repertoires linked to contemporaneity, duet with many friends and colleagues from the world of entertainment, television, cinema and music who in turn will perform their "warhorses"

original_name: Cavalli di battaglia

Non lasciamoci più

overview: Non lasciamoci più is an Italian television series.

character: Avv. Paolo G. Bonelli

original_name: Non lasciamoci più

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Italiano

Fabrizio Frizzi

biography: Fabrizio Frizzi è stato un celebre conduttore televisivo e radiofonico italiano. È diventato noto per la sua conduzione di programmi di successo come "Scommettiamo che...?", "Luna Park", "Miss Italia", "Soliti ignoti - Identità nascoste", e "L'eredità".

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

title: Buona giornata

overview: A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.

character: se stesso

original_title: Buona giornata

title: Figli del Set

original_title: Figli del Set

place_of_birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy

title: Buona giornata

title: Figli del Set

known_for_department: Acting


Gil Baron

Workaholics

overview: The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.

character: Gil

original_name: Workaholics


Bartosz Bielenia

overview: Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

character: Benjamin Kras

original_language: pl

Into Deep Water

overview: A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.

character: Patryk Domagała

original_name: Głęboka woda

The Passing Bells

overview: At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.

character: Lucas

original_name: The Passing Bells

facebook_id: bbielenia

Polski

iso_639_1: pl

iso_3166_1: PL

english_name: Polish

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: The Time of a Young Man About to Kill

overview: In the mountains of Northern Albania, a young man seeks revenge for his father's death. The murderer has disappeared a few months ago and the police is still looking for him. The young man kidnaps the killer's only son and raises him up until he reaches his 16th birthday, when according to the Kanun, the Albanian law of revenge, a child becomes a man and he is allowed to kill or to be killed.

character: Young Man

original_title: Kronikë e një burri që është gati të vrasë

title: Winter

overview: A cat lover, Jesus leaving the cross and Christmas carollers holding pitchforks are set against a snowy and icy scenery. ‘Zima’, a psychodelic journey to a small fishing village, collects as if in a lens the behaviour, customs and vices of the Polish provinces. In this small community, different views, the behaviour of people and animals and their mutual relations clash like ice floes on a lake. Maintained in the convention of magic realism, this animation is like a horror playing out to the accompaniment of barking dogs and a punk metal music score.

character: Łukasz (voice)

original_title: Zima

title: Perseids

overview: On Friday evening, Janek has a meeting with his friend Bartek and his fiancée Justyna. Realizes that their relationship is in bad shape. He once had an affair with Justyna and sees a chance for himself when he is invited to a house party by them. Little did he know that he would be subjected to the final test that night.

character: Janek

original_title: Perseidy

title: Light in August

overview: Kuba and Jurek are friends. They work together clearing the forest and spend their free time together, too. Both live in the village of Olchówka where life goes by at its own unhurried rhythm - people know each other very well, the atmosphere is bucolic and leisurely. One day Kuba wakes up after a passionate night and finds himself in the middle of a field, accompanied by cows. Then he cannot find his mate. So he decides to look for the girl that they both met that night.

original_title: Światło w sierpniu

title: Plastic Symphony

overview: Matúš is a talented musician, who left his successfully developing career, when his adoptive mother fell ill. After her death, he’s living with his stepbrother Dávid and together they go through life, each in their own way. While Dávid takes what life gives him, Matúš feels frustrated by his failed ambitions. On his way to their fulfillment, he meets his old schoolmate Albert, who opens doors to the „better“ world for him.

character: Matúš

original_title: Plastic Symphony

original_language: sk

title: Scarborn

overview: Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt.

character: Ignac Sikora

original_title: Kos

title: The High Frontier

overview: A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.

original_title: Na granicy

title: Clergy

overview: The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

character: lizus

original_title: Kler

title: Corpus Christi

overview: A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

character: Daniel

original_title: Boże Ciało

title: 25 Years of Innocence

overview: Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.

character: Krzysiek Pyzior

original_title: 25 lat niewinności

title: Prime Time

overview: On the last day of 1999, 20-year-old Sebastian locks himself in a TV studio. He has two hostages, a gun, and an important message for the world. The story of the attack explores a rebel’s extreme measures and last resort.

character: Sebastian

original_title: Prime Time

title: Magnesium

overview: A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters.

character: Erwin

original_title: Magnezja

title: Ondine

overview: Cezary still lives with his mother at 22 years old. He is in desperately in love with Emilia, a 20 year-old carefree rock singer. But he also has a dark secret. What will happen to Cezary, his mother and Emilia when they encounter the curse of the mythical nymph Ondine?

character: Cezary

original_title: Ondyna

title: Hurrah, We Are Still Alive!

overview: A group of actors centered around one charismatic director are getting ready to compete for work on a new film. They all want to get closer to him and wil do anything to make it work.

original_title: Hura, wciąż żyjemy!

title: I Am Lying Now

overview: Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.

character: Yvonne's boyfriend

original_title: Ja teraz kłamię

title: Disco Polo

overview: Young wannabe musicians from the province decide to write hit song and gain the top of the charts in order to become legends of disco polo

character: Funny Gamer

original_title: Disco Polo

title: The Time That Never Came

overview: In a world obsessed with youth, Sara chose to age naturally while Oskar, her partner, took an anti-aging treatment. Years later, when they reunite — divided by time but bound by the past — Sara begins a journey to reclaim lost love, confront buried emotions and find freedom.

character: Ed

original_title: Czas, który nie nadszedł

title: Wolves

overview: Luana feels trapped; she is frustrated with society, her family, and her job at a crèche. She searches for stability and a sense of belonging, and finds both in the local black metal scene. While accompanying her cousin's band on tour as their social media manager, she falls in love with the charismatic singer, Wiktor. When his more radical views come to light, causing tension within the band, Luana refuses to see the truth and cannot let him go.

character: Wiktor

original_title: Wolves

original_language: de

title: Serafima

overview: In Soviet Estonia, one woman's tragedy intersects with a doctor's inner struggle: to obey the orders of an authoritarian system or risk losing everything in the name of truth.

character: Bogdan

original_title: Serafima

original_language: et

title: Opening Night

overview: The reunion of a young couple, recently split, stirs up intense emotion as they relive their relationship's troubled past during a theatre afterparty. The deeper they delve into their past, the harder it becomes to resurface back into reality.

character: (voice)

original_title: Premiera

title: Connoisseur's Feast

overview: Kaja, a young and promising artist, is stuck in a creativity crisis. Overwhelmed by the pressure of the art market, with no support of her faithless partner, she organises a diabolic performance.

original_title: Uczta konesera

title: Everything for sale

overview: Theatrical version of Andrzej Wajda's 1969 film "Everything for sale" produced by Teatr Telewizji. In 2016, during the production of Wajda's final film, he suddenly disappears. The film crew tries to find the missing director and quickly learns that he is dead. Now the film crew faces difficulties with finishing the film and dealing with grief after the master's death.

character: Mateusz

original_title: Wszystko na sprzedaż

title: EXOTIC

overview: Plot kept under wraps

original_title: EXOTIC

job: Co-Director

title: EXOTIC

department: Directing

job: Co-Writer

title: EXOTIC

title: Prime Time

title: The Time of a Young Man About to Kill

title: Winter

title: Perseids

title: Light in August

title: Plastic Symphony

title: Scarborn

title: The High Frontier

title: Clergy

title: Corpus Christi

title: 25 Years of Innocence

title: Prime Time

title: Magnesium

title: Ondine

title: Hurrah, We Are Still Alive!

title: I Am Lying Now

title: Disco Polo

title: The Time That Never Came

title: Wolves

title: Serafima

title: Opening Night

title: Connoisseur's Feast

title: Everything for sale

title: EXOTIC

title: EXOTIC

title: EXOTIC