The Pledge 1982
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative space alien, going by the name "Split," has taken up telepathic residence in his mind, and is leading him to question the norms of planet Earth. Only one teacher is willing to entertain the possibility that Mark just might be telling the truth.
When a work-related dispute erupts between their fathers, the friendship of teenagers Joseph and Peter is put under strain.
A lonely twelve-year-old boy with problem parents experiments with drugs and enters an idealised fantasy world.
The Flower reflects the director's experience of living in a totalitarian communist state and pays homage to Trnka’s film Ruka, The Hand, made 3 years before the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968.