Pundersons Gardens’ first fiction feature is a story of friendship and love gone wrong. Co-produced with Gothenburgs Shoot&Post and entirely shot in Sweden, it is also the feature debut from directors Johan von Reybekiel and Marcus Werner Hed.

On the last weekend of summer a group of friends have gathered to celebrate Carl’s birthday in his family’s summer house on the west coast of Sweden. Carl’s beautiful cousin Stina has just moved back from London to resettle in Sweden, and brings devoted British boyfriend Nick along for the festivities. Their relationship is fraying, and is exacerbated over the weekend by Nick’s inability to fit in or grasp the language and rituals of the group. Stina finds herself annoyed by Nick’s cloying vulnerability, and fascinated by her cocky, charismatic cousin. When Stina’s flirtations with Carl provoke Nick, the boozy party escalates into a blur of taboo-laden conflict and an explosive investigation of love and commitment.

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Self-styled performance artist Bob Parks’ career began some forty years ago, when he first entered the arena of underground art and music during the early seventies. Born in the UK, Bob moved to South Central Los Angeles in 1972, where he immersed himself in various aspects of avant-garde culture. A stint as an actor resulted in a walk-on part in Martin Scorsese’s New York New York, and further adventures in the mainstream involved appearances on The Gong Show. An enigmatic dreamer operating on the fringes of the artworld, this documentary highlights Bob’s colourful life. Directed by Nathaniel Mellors and Marcus Werner Hed with an expected release in 2014.

‘Drowned City’ is a debut feature-length documentary by Faith Millin about the people who devote themselves to pirate radio in London. It is an intimate, character-based film which gives a rare insight into the poignant affect illegal broadcasting has on their lives. The film follows five central characters with varying levels of experience, offering a ground-level portrait of the unsung heroes that are still turning the cogs of pirate radio. Serving their community through illegal activity.

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A film about the enigmatic Ghedalia Tazartes, a Parisian musician of Jewish-Greek parentage with a brilliantly distinctive voice. An overlooked pioneer, the documentary explores Tazartes and his music, a fusion of cultural juxtapositions, of harmony and dissonance with a multitude of diverse influences. A portrait that uncovers a remarkable musician and his unique music that is rarely heard.

Feature-length documentary looking at the transformation, uncertainty, and ambition found at the very top of the world. Set against a backdrop of climate change and geopolitical competition, the film looks at the way in which individuals living in some of the harshest and most spectacular environments in the world struggle with environmental and financial uncertainties. Shot in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.

A film looking at the unique work of German outsider artist Horst Ademeit. Working independently and outside the context of the art world, since the late 1980s Ademeit embarked upon an obsessive program of evidence collection. Employing photography and meticulous note-keeping, he worked extensively and prodigiously to prove the existence of what he called “cold rays” – unseen forces that severely impacted his life and his surrounding environment. ADEMEIT has shown international at both White Columns, New York and Sketch Gallery, London.

Ourhouse by artist Nathaniel Mellors is a  series of films portraying the Maddox-Wilson family, an eccentric grouping whose roles and relationships begin to shift after the arrival of ‘The Object’. Through consuming and excreting books, ‘The Object’ takes control of language within the family home. These themes are then played out in the ensuing episodes, products of the ingested, half-digested texts. The films where finished and graded in-house at Pundersons Gardens and went on to feature in a solo show at the ICA in London.

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Pundersons Gardens produced Daria Martin’s film ‘One of the Things That Makes Me Doubt’. A film that fuses two separate bodies of work each created over a decade: the artist’s own filmic output and her grandmother’s prolific dream diaries. Working with a unique combination of unconventional interviews, outtakes from earlier films and narrated accounts of dreams, the film explores the construction of identity individually and as seen by others across generations.

Short film exploring the story of three young Cape Verdeans who overcame adversity to become internationally recognised kite-surfing champions and local business and community leaders. Shot in Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa.

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Pundersons Gardens provided studio as well as post-production facilities for British artist Emily Wardill’s film ‘Game Keepers Without Game’, a fine art piece with the structure of a feature-length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s allegory ‘La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream)’ and translated into contemporary British life, it follows the narrative of a return of a child who has been banished from the family home.

Pundersons Gardens graded and finished Nathaniel Mellors’s ‘Giantbum’. A ridiculous, funny and absurd work that featured as part of the Tate Triennial.

In 1970 at the age of 24, Jacob Holdt left for America with $40 in his pocket and not much else. He lived there for six years without any income whatsoever. Hitchhiking 161,265 km through 48 states and taking over 15,000 photographs on a cheap half frame camera, he bargained his way into President Nixon’s headquarters with as much ease as he became an inhabitant of some of the nation’s toughest ghettos. This film focuses on the stories and images Jacob has collected, in a measured and reflective wander through the fantastical tales of a man who allowed the world to accommodate him. The film premiered at The Photographers Gallery London in 2008 and has since been shown in festivals throughout Europe.

A film set in the slums of Kampala, capital of Uganda, about translators overdubbing western films into the regional language Luganda. Films screened in ‘video halls’ (slum cinemas) on old television sets are translated by local VJs who cut the sound, using clothes pegs and exposed speaker wire, to conjure up unexpected and often creative interpretations of the narratives.

Sissel Tolaas is a Norwegian artist living and working in Berlin. She studied mathematics, chemistry and visual arts in Bergen, Warsaw, Poznan, St. Petersburg and Oslo. Since 1990, she has concentrated on the language and communication of smell, focusing particularly on the concept of capturing the essence of a city or a place. This is a short documentary portrait of Tolaas in collaboration with SHOWstudio, and based on an interview done with Penny Martin in December 2006.