Simon Pummell
2021
Rose Red
Simon Pummell
Douglas Henshall, Carolyn Choa
Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The theft of an experimental drug to suppress the immune system reveals a case of virtual reality addiction and forces a detective to confront his nightmares.
Rose Red
Secret Joy of Falling Angels
Simon Pummell
A re-telling of the annunciation story which blurs the sacred and the profane. The film combines many different optical film techniques with an exploration of drawing the human body which breeds Mickey Mouse with Michelangelo.
Secret Joy of Falling Angels
Shock Head Soul
Simon Pummell
Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer
This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum. This is his story.
Shock Head Soul
Blinded by Light
Simon Pummell
Richard Earthy
A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see.
Blinded by Light
