Richard Flood

How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork, as the visual artist creates a "narrative sculpture" telling a fantastical love story of two characters that transform from land mammals into whales. (IFC First Take)

Will Spanner, the reluctant heir to a dark legacy, is once again thrown into battle against the forces of evil when a series of gruesome murders begins to take place. The victims are all brutally murdered in a ritualistic fashion - the heart is missing from each of the corpses. All of the victims also have something in common with Will, something that the minions of darkness will stop at nothing to possess. Can Will Spanner unravel the mystery surrounding the murders before it is too late? (imdb)

A special crime unit investigates serialized crimes that cross over European borders, to hunt down criminals and bring them to justice. (imdb)

Gemma and Will are shattered when their son dies in an accident. Gemma starts to have panic attacks that affect her eyesight. Will believes he is hearing his son's voice. To escape their grief, Gemma suggests they take up their friend Paul's offer to stay at his country getaway. Love, grief, and the frailty of the human condition are all brought to the fore as Gemma, Will, and Paul are caught up in a descent into violence, both psychological and ultimately physical.

An Irish detective teams up with a Kiwi cop to find an Irish couple who have vanished from a rural New Zealand town. The pair have to contend with a community's growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of historical murders. (imdb)