Michael is a commercial artist working with fellow artist Greg in a t shirt factory making the artwork screen printed onto shirts. Michael feels unfulfilled in his job making joke t-shirts with slogans such as "Tennis Players Do It With Fuzzy Balls" emblazoned on them and a boss who tortures him by playing loud motivational recordings into his art studio.
One of the popular designs is a t-shirt with Foxy Lady written onto it at the beginning of the film we see a masked man attack a woman wearing the foxy lady t-shirt. As the film progresses we learn the significance of this and why Michael is currently in a psychiatric ward.
Greener Mountain is the story of JP Barton an adopted boy raised on a Vermont family resort. Since being found as an infant by the aging owner, JP has essentially never left the resort grounds. The arrival of a young, free spirited artist, Alice Flynn, pits brother against brother and propels JP on an explosive course vying for her love. Desire collides with betrayal in this passionate romance.
Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) is a mentally unstable social media stalker who moves to LA and ingratiates herself into the life of an Instagram influencer who she has become obsessed with. The influencer played by Elizabeth Olsen is the girlfriend of the artist in this movie.
The artist Daniel San Souci painted the wild horse painting in the film. In the movie the artist Ezra O'Keefe paints the words Squad Goals onto it. The art works in the movie made by Ezra seem to be inspired by the artist Wayne White's artwork.
A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. Read more on Wikipedia
A close up of one of of Maurice's music boxes which portrays him painting a portrait of his wife holding their child Belle.
Maurice working on the music box
Detail of the portrait scene inside the music box
Maurice looks at a portrait on the wall, it is the same one from the music box
Close up of Maurice's portrait of his wife and child
Belle looks at some sketches Maurice has made of her
At the start of the film Ellen is painting a portrait of Rosie
Ellen painting Rosie outside their cottage
Rosie comes and looks at the portrait
While Ellen goes inside Rosie takes the paintbrush and paints onto the portrait
The spoiled portrait
Ellen asks Rosie not to paint onto her portrait and encourages her to finish her own painting of a flying bird. Rosie is upset as she doesn't like her own painting.
West Country Tales was a series of short films made for TV in the 1980s, they are supernatural tales based on stories and folklore from the West Country.
This tale is about a mother and her daughter in the 19th century living on their own in the countryside. Her husband had died overseas leaving enough money to provide for Ellen and their child Rosie who has learning difficulties, the narrator says "Rosie, caught in perpetual childhood". She has a tendency to destroy property, in the very first scene we see her ruin the portrait her mother has made of her. As the film goes on we discover she has a penchant for killing animals too.
A Finnish road movie film about a successful glass artist who is having a midlife crisis. He is sent by his psychiatrist to take a few weeks off and enjoy the Finnish countryside. Where he meets a tramp who bears an uncanny resemblance to his psychiatrist and falls in love with a student who crosses his path on a number of occasions due to her job as a tour bus guide.
Artist Hallie Reynolds is finding motherhood to her new born and her overbearing mother-in-law exhausting. Her baby had a lung transplant right after she was born, which was very stressful, so Hallie is taking anti-anxiety medication. She is thrilled when she makes a new friend in Megan, who tells her she is an art PR and knows Hallie's artwork. Things start to unravel for Hallie and she begins to question her sanity as danger follows her every move and it seems someone is out to steal her baby.
Wealthy and charitable Mary Herries is tricked by aspiring artist Henry Abbott into letting him and ill wife Ada stay in her stately home.
When he invites friends Mr. and Mrs. Edwards to pay a visit, they overstay their welcome as well. Days turn into weeks, making Mary and housemaid Rose increasingly anxious for everyone to leave.
It turns out to be a plot masterminded by the silky and sinister Abbott to steal everything Mary owns. He masquerades as a relative and they as her butler and maid, holding Mary and Rose captive in their rooms. Outsiders are told that Mary has gone on holiday to America and won't return for a long time.
The plot thickens as Rose is killed. The suspicions of Mary's business adviser, Foster, are confirmed when no record of Mary applying for a passport can be found. The police arrive just in time to save her and place Abbott under arrest. read more on Wikipedia
Henry Abbot's chalk drawing outside Mary Herries home
Henry Abbot making the chalk drawing on the pavement
Later Henry shows Mary some of his artwork
She is unimpressed
He presents her with another painting he has made of a landscape with cows
She tells him its very bad and he agrees with her but aggressively persuades her to buy the artwork. She agrees writing a cheque, to get him to leave and says she never wants to see him again.