Films

Feature Films

SYNOPSIS

Eve awakes in an unstaffed medical facility, awaiting diagnosis for a mystery illness. With no recollection of how, why or when she was admitted, she joins a group of outcast patients, who are attempting to recall what takes place during treatment inside a terrifying room known as the hole - a psychoactive space where testing takes place and encoded instructions are administered that each patient must follow if they wish to heal.

They cannot leave the locked down facility, for fear of what their sickness will unleash upon their families and the world beyond.

As Eve learns more about the patients, she begins to remember the terrible events that led to her sickness.

Eve’s husband and son are missing and her journal holds the key to finding them.

She writes in an attempt to recall why she was admitted to the facility. An alien world at the edge of her dreams begins to bleed through, compelling her to write the transmissions down. Soon, these visions will consume her.

Is she a prisoner, a patient... or dead?

Official Selection

2022 MidWest WeirdFest
2022 Esoteric International Film Festival
2021 The International Film Festival of Wales
2021 Festival Angaelica
2021 Dreamers Of Dreams Film Festival
2021 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival
2021 Northwest Of NYC Film Festival
2021 International Moving Film Festival
2021 World of Film International Festival Glasgow
2021 Bastalavista International Genre Film Festival
2021 Peephole Filmfest
2021 Catalina Film Festival
2021 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival
2021 Festival of Cinema NYC
2021 Paracinema Film Festival
2021/2022 Queen Palm International Film Festival
2021 Crypticon Kansas City Shockfest
2021 L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival
2021 Something Wicked Film Festival
2021 Fortean Film Festival
2021 Brighton Rocks Film Festival

AWARDS

Winner - Best Director - John Harrigan - Festival of Cinema NYC
Winner - Best Feature Film ‘International Narrative’ - Festival Angaelica 2021
Winner - Best Screenplay - John Harrigan for Lightships - Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival 2021
Winner - Best Feature Film Fiction - International Moving Film Festival 2021
Winner - Suspense - Best Feature Film - Peephole Filmfest 2021
Winner - Best Science Fiction Film - Something Wicked Film Festival 2021
Winner - Best Film Award - L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival 2021
Winner - Best Feature - Sci-Fi - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Director - John Harrigan - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Actress - Lois Temel - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Cinematography - Mark Caldwell - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Producer - Bill Houston, John Harrigan, Lucy Harrigan - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Poster - Paul Jenkinson - Gold Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Writer - John Harrigan - Silver Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Editing - John Harrigan - Silver Award - 1st Quarter - Queen Palm International Film Fest 2021
Winner - Best Sci-Fi Feature Cryptic Award - Crypticon Kansas City Shockfest 2021
Winner - Silver Medal - Best Feature Length Live Action - Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival 2021
Winner - Best UFOLOGY / ALIENS film - Bronze Award - Fortean Film Festival 2021
Winner - Best Mise-En-Scène Award - Brighton Rocks Film Festival 2021

“Director John Harrigan’s latest feature is one of the most captivating and unusual releases I have seen in quite some time. Based on the book Remembrance by Maryann Rada, the film explores a myriad of metaphysical concepts that shed new light on what constitutes reality, where we as a species may be headed, the nature of our true self, the essence of death and dreams, and even humanity’s interaction with extraterrestrials.” - Brent Marchant

“There are of course some rare and fine films which are both metaphorically and actually magical: much of the work of Kenneth Anger; Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. John Harrigan’s second film for FoolishPeople, Armageddon Gospels, can resolutely be added to this list.” Daily Grail - Cat Vincent

SYNOPSIS

Refugee gods, transposed to flesh and blood, wash ashore to rouse the myths of ancient England, half-drowned in a forgotten past. They disperse through shifting realities to awaken the giant Albion and find the holy grail in a ritual to save England from the rot of darkness and hatred that’s strangling its soul.

AWARDS

Brighton Rocks Film Festival 2018, Best Director Award - John Harrigan
First Hermetic International Film Festival 2019, Italy, Cagliostro Award - Best Storytelling

“Its message is powerful” and “the Hare is as potent as anything in The Wicker Man.” - STARBURST MAGAZINE - Martin Unsworth

SYNOPSIS

A writer, possessed by a terrifying story hunts for its secret heart in a mysterious landscape. He journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory.

The veil between worlds thins and the doorway opens to Strange Factories, a unique live cinema experience that will immerse you in its dreamlike world.

In the depths of every artist’s imagination, a story exists that threatens to engulf the mind of those who dare to believe it. For every wondrous fairytale, there lives its dark and horrifying twin. Victor, a writer, possessed by a terrifying story journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory.

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“The production fuses the haunting, authentic dreamworlds of David Lynch and the theatrical philosophies of Antonin Artaud....to create a vivid and disturbing reality to powerfully draw in the audience.” - Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine Fall 2013 Issue

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“This film not only frightens, but also inspires—neither of which are very easy to accomplish.” - Ain’t it cool news

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“Woooooow! Just saw Strange Factories by foolishpeople. It was incredible. Such a wonderful achievement. A masterpiece.” — The Alt Entertainer

Strange Factories Tours

The Imaginari

26th October - 9 November 2013 at the Cinema Museum, London, UK
10th November 2013 at the Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton, UK
15th–16th November 2013 with Sundown Cinema at Cadwell Farm, Hitchin, UK
18th November 2013 at Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth, UK

Remade

13th September 2014 Scalarama at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK
24th September 2014, Making Waves Film Festival at the Kings Theatre, Southsea Portsmouth, UK
17th October 2014, at the Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford, UK
1st November 2014 at The Magic Lantern Cinema, Tywyn, UK