Films

Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
The Complete Map of the Universe
Speed of Light

Digital Broadcast
Writing on the Wall
Burningfrom the Inside
In and Out of Planet Earth
The Speed of Life: Documentary on the making of Speeed of Light
In and Out
of Planet Earth
The Speed of Life

Films :: "Map of the Universe"

Written and Directed: Virtual Alien.
Produced and Edited: Tom Norwood.
Cast: Dolly di Rosso, James Waterhouse, Jimmy Ryland, Stuart Timings and Virtual Alien.
Location(s): UK.
Duration: 90 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2003.
Rating: PG.

Map of the Universe is a TV reality game show. The host is Doctor Kelvin, a psychotherapist. Every week he is analysing the mental health of two new contestants. The show is first being aired in the UK. The film is a three-dimensional protection. The story is seen in a distant future, talking about events that occured in the past, computed and compiled in the present.



Map of the Universe poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Quick Step Beyond"

Based Around a Play by: Monique Ly and Romoni Ly.
Directed: Virtual Alien.
Produced and Edited: Tom Norwood.
Cast: Dolly di Rosso, Michel Reytier, Frederic Thibault, Stephanie Goutard, Adeline Lejeune and Andre Rocques.
Location(s): France and UK.
Duration: 22 mins.
Language: English/French.
Year: 2002.
Rating: PG.

When you get there, do you know where you are? Quick Step Beyond is the adventure in the mind of a man from Hackney, London who went to see a play in Paris. It is a multi-dimensional process. The play is seen through the eyes and filtered in the mind of the man. We are visualising his fears and anxieties.



Quick Step Beyond poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps"

Written and Directed: Virtual Alien.
Produced and Edited: Tom Norwood.
Cast: Laurent Mercier and friends.
Location(s): France and UK.
Duration: 15 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2001.
Rating: PG.

Laurent Mercier, a fashion designer, is presenting his latest collection in Paris. We are witnessing the long build-up to the few minutes on the catwalk where the scary monsters and super creeps will be released from the hands of their master.



Scary Monsters and Super Creeps poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "The Complete Map of the Universe"

Written and Directed: Nick Peterson.
Produced: Tom Norwood.
Exec. Producers: Christine Peterson, Alex & David Altman.
Screenplay: Nicolas Gaud.
Editing: Nick Peterson and Thomas Black.
Music/Sound: Virtual Alien.
Cast: Mark Joseph, Dolly Di Rosso and Paul Sere.
Location(s): UK and Los Angeles.
Duration: 130 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2006.
Rating: PG.

Based on the real-life TV game show 'The Kelvin Game Show' where 'patients' are psychoanalysed in the dark and are locked in a house for one month. The project is a journey into the brain of four contestants. Their state of mind is measured by 2 thermometers, one filtering the Kelvin degree and the other the EST degree, a mental state.



The Complete Map of the Universe poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Speed of Light"

Written and Directed: Nick Peterson.
Produced: Tom Norwood.
Exec. Producers: Christine Peterson, Alex & David Altman.
Location(s): London, English Channel and Isle of Wight.
Cast: Vincent Hall, Alex Hall, Stuart Mansell, Jenia Emmanuelle and Tony Hendon.
Screenplay: Nicolas Gaud.
Music/Sound: Virtual Alien.
Year: 2006.
Language: English.
Duration: 90 mins.
Rating: 18.

Two brothers, that escape from a broken home and end up on a deserted island inside an abandoned warehouse. Thomas is obsessed by a science fiction novel called "Speed of Light" and always reads some parts to his brother. Exhausted on arrival they fall asleep. In the early hours of the morning they leave the house bruised and wounded. They discover what could happen at the Speed of Light. It’s the tale of two stories that collide throughout an entire night.



Speed of Light poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Digital Broadcast"

Written and Directed: Nick Peterson.
Produced: Tom Norwood.
Exec. Producers: Christine Peterson, Alex & David Altman.
Screenplay: Nicolas Gaud.
Editing: Nick Peterson and Thomas Black.
Music/Sound: Virtual Alien.
Cast: Paul Gambaccini, Alex Hall and Virtual Alien.
Location(s): London.
Duration: 62 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2006.
Rating: PG.

Documentary-feature based around the life of American broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, with an in-depth interview seen from a screen inside a TV studio by two journalists. The film demonstrates the changes in broadcasting over 30 years to a full High Definition broadcast.



Digital Broadcast poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Writing on the Wall
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Writing on the Wall"

Written and Directed: Nick Peterson.
Produced: Tom Norwood.
Exec. Producers: Laurent Mercier and Christine Peterson.
Editing: Nick Peterson and Thomas Black.
Music/Sound: Virtual Alien.
Cast: Mark Joseph and Jenia Emmanuelle.
Location(s): London and New York.
Screenplay: Nicolas Gaud.
Duration: 88 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2006.
Rating: TBC.

Writing on the wall is a dream sequence. Somewhere in time two protagonists joined into the same dream and reminisce on the past. Mary-Jane D'Arbanville, a mouse, exiled herself from her native New York believing that she had killed her boyfriend. She landed in London in 1991 and lived with her new found friend Paul X, himself a rat. Jane and Paul painted the diary, as the story unfolded, on the walls of London during the nineties.



Writing on the Wall poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Burning from the Inside
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Films :: "Burning on the Inside"

Written and Directed: Nick Peterson.
Produced: Tom Norwood.
Exec. Producers: Laurent Mercier and Christine Peterson.
Editing: Nick Peterson and Thomas Black.
Music/Sound: Virtual Alien.
Cast: Ibiba Don Pedro, Oronto Douglas, Rowland Ekperi and 20+ members of the Ijaw tribe.
Location(s): UK and Nigera.
Screenplay: Nicolas Gaud.
Duration: 90 mins.
Language: English.
Year: 2006.
Rating: PG.

This feature documentary is an interview of several members of a Nigerian tribe called the Ijaw. They are several million living in the oil rich region, the Niger Delta. Nigeria is the world's sixth largest exporter of crude oil, the fourth largest reserve of oil and gas and an important supplier of oil to the U.S. Since the British left Nigeria, in the 1960’s, the country has lived in a state of semi–civil war.



Burning from the Inside poster

Poster Design: Tom Norwood.


Feature: Map of the Universe
Short: Quick Step Beyond
Short: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Feature: The Complete Map of the Universe
Feature: Speed of Light
Feature: Digital Broadcast
Feature: Writing on the Wall
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