What Are You Like

Jeff Chiba talks about his early life in white-bred Kelowna, BC, Canada.

Insecure single guy sees an attractive young woman eating lunch alone. Can he muster the courage to try introducing himself?

“'Tomas,' a woman asks between kisses, 'what are you thinking?' To which Tomas replies: 'I’m thinking how happy I am.' The clip loops—the lovers locked in this tender moment, accompanied by piano music and the thrum of rain and windscreen wipers—and with every repeat becomes more cloying and meaningless." Michael Kurtz, e-flux

Will smiling make you happy? Will changing your posture make you more confident? Can the science of embodied cognition make you feel better?

A man which is almost obsessed by being anonymous, and never the best in anything. Being second means that you are not noticed, forgotten, but still important as a human.

How do we go about finding a partner today? What do we look for in a companion? In an age dominated by virtual communication, how do we build truly intimate relationships? After 10 years of being single, filmmaker Shiv Paul finds himself wrestling with these questions and how the rules of dating have evolved in our technology-driven reality. Aided by insight and commentary from a diverse group of couples, psychologists, and experts in relationships, he sets out on a quest to answer how, in today’s world, do we go about building meaningful connections?

Are You Coming or What?

What are you looking for? tackles questions coming from the interweaving worlds of the virtual and the real. It started with me revisiting my old computer files - my first digital drawings, family photos and videos, computer games, pixelated video logs, and PowerPoint presentations. Each file became a jigsaw piece forming the puzzle that is my screen-based upbringing, each pixel shedding light on issues of the digital era and its reality-bending properties.

What Are You Looking At? is a forthcoming BBC comedy show, hosted by Jimmy Carr and produced by Hat Trick Productions. It is a clip show looking back at the week's television. A pilot was recorded starring Carr and the BBC plans to make a full series. However, the programme has already been attacked for being too similar to ITV1 show Harry Hill's TV Burp. The BBC claimed that, "Our show will be more spiky."

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

A short web-drama

The documentary analyses the relationship between producers and chefs based on their own testimonies. It touches on subjects such as the importance of the produce in the kitchen, sustainability, the generational takeover and promotion of the rural world.

The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.

Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention center overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration, she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.

A short animated film designed and directed by David Shrigley, promoting his book "What The Hell Are You Doing?". Animated and composited by James Newport.

Video calls are the chosen medium for participants speaking from locations around the world as they give the viewers a tour of their gardens. One participant, the London-based Jen Quan, calls her mother in Thailand to explore what she’s growing, making space for conversation and connections through nature that they may never have considered before.

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...

Drew, a young man bullied and abused throughout his life, aspires to be a body builder, but can't quite achieve his goals. His sanity ends when his girlfriend leaves him for being too much of a health fanatic, and he's beaten up and bullied just one too many times. He begins murdering local body builders, as he searches for the ultimate key to health and strength. Inevitably his search leads him to an ancient secret, which adds new truth and meaning to the saying: "you are what you eat."