He left Irish national television in 1989 to become a freelance editor and in 1995 found funding for his first feature film, The Boy from Mercury, a film set in 1950s Dublin about a young boy whose life revolves around the escapism of Saturday afternoon Flash Gordon serials at his local cinema.
Her continued exploration of female sexuality and modern man's desire for self escapism have taken her from a dilapidated brothel in Brazil to an exclusive Love Hotel in Tokyo, producing projects such as; Street Kiss, Tokyo Girls and Tokyo Hotel Story.
::In her exhibition entitled Around and Around 1000 Times, Schandra Singh presents large-scale paintings that address the issue of escapism as a means of coping with suffering.
The story focuses on the 24 hours when a major ice storm strikes the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, just as both families are melting down from the parents' alcoholism, escapism and adultery, and their children's drug use and sexual experimentation.