Jes Benstock

The Holocaust Tourist

Jes Benstock

A wry animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistle-stop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica. How is dark tourism changing history?

Orders of Love

Jes Benstock

Worried for his son, director Jes Benstock goes on a quest to the darkest corners of his family tree - armed only with a videophone, his dad, and a therapist.

The British Guide to Showing Off

Jes Benstock

Andrew Logan, Brian Eno

Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Edmund Yeo, Oliver Whitehead

An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.