James Holmes

1926. Harry Houdini est le plus grand prestidigitateur au monde, attirant un public intrigué par ses tours de magie. Mais l'homme derrière la légende est une âme torturée d'avoir raté les derniers mots de sa mère mourante. Il est prêt à offrir une récompense de 10 000 $ à quiconque pourra le mettre en contact avec l'esprit de sa mère. Quand une mystérieuse femme, Mary McGarvie, prétend avoir ce pouvoir, le scepticisme d'Houdini est troublé. Plus il passe du temps avec Mary, plus il est attiré par elle. Houdini ne se doute alors pas qu'il se trouve au coeur du tour de magie le plus dangereux de sa carrière...

Two unlikely friends set out on a mission of revenge.

An ordinary man is lured by the promise of free doughnuts to a creepy cinema showing a strange film. Top-ten short-listed film in the Sci-Fi-London 48 Hour Film Challenge 2009, and featured on Syfy.co.uk.

Georgia, 1864. Desperate to escape an arranged marriage to her brutal neighbor, Willa Randall disguises herself as a boy and joins the confederate Cavalry.

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.