A hand becomes a weapon. Our hands can be opened to greet, caress and touch or, as in this case, they can strike out to cause pain. Punch is a metaphor for the violence that forms the backdrop to our lives. Punch mirrors a world of Hollywood action films, real-time war coverage, domestic violence and intolerance.
Also in this combined programme
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Manthrax
Manthrax has been created from re-edited video footage at the Mr Olympia 1980 annual body building contest, starring the then world famous muscle men Frank… -
Feathered Water (Moby Dick)
With archive material from the Imperial War Museum, Griffin shows the complexity of reactions to a strange example of military technology. At first sight, marine… -
The Whale
The Whale is a reflection of the micro-politics of contemporary events through black images, images of everyday life and offscreen narration that transcends death. The… -
Busby Berkeley’s Tribute to Mae West
The meeting of Hollywood’s most famous choregrapher and one of its most famous quotes: ‘Is that a gun in your pocket?’ (Mae West) -
Dad’s Dead
A young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story… -
Cultural Quarter
Cultural Quarter shows the relations between observation in the city and its inhabitants. In this way, Mike Stubbs tackles ethical questions surrounding surveillance, the look… -
MM
Like an alien spacecraft landed on a poisoned wasteland, the Millennium Dome makes a fitting tribute to the works of New Labour. Taking the Dome… -
God Save the Queen
When God Save the Queen by The Sex Pistols was at the top of the hit parade in 1976, it was promptly banned by British… -
Mother Nature
Zeke Roberts speaks about his life and how he spends his time for a project sponsored by Hull Time-Based Arts (www.speechless.org.uk). He is seen chatting… -
The Remote Controller
People Like Us samples and mixes existing images and sound from so-called Orphan Films -educational films from the Prelinger Archive in San Francisco and New… -
Till Death Do Us Join
Men in uniform, naked men, men in tailored suits wearing bowler hats. The digital video collage Till Death Do Us Join is an Orwellian vision,…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 1'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
