Show Pieces
Directed byMitch Jenkins
Written byAlan Moore
Produced byPete Coogan
Starring
CinematographyTrevor Forrest
Edited byColin Goudie
Release dates
  • 17 April 2014 (2014-04-17) (Buenos Aires)
  • 6 May 2016 (2016-05-06)
Running time
  • Act of Faith:
  • 19 minutes
  • Upon Reflection:
  • 8 minutes
  • Jimmy's End:
  • 34 minutes
  • A Professional Relationship:
  • 10 minutes
  • His Heavy Heart:
  • 30 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Show Pieces is a British short film series written by Alan Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins.[1] The series follows a man, Jimmy, who finds himself in a gentlemen's club after his death.

Five installments have been released, the last installment was financed via Kickstarter.[2]

1. Act of Faith: Faith Harrington, a young female reporter on a local newspaper who has an exotic private life, prepares for a stimulating evening at home that does not go according to plan.

2. Upon Reflection: Details Faith Harrington's first bewildered arrival at the peculiar working men's club immediately after the event that concludes Act of Faith, all captured in a fixed security mirror above a club's oddly anachronistic lounge bar.

3. Jimmy's End: Louche and hard-drinking womaniser James Mitchum finds himself wandering into one strange bar too many.

4. A Professional Relationship: Explores the peculiar relationship between the club's two managers.

5. His Heavy Heart: Picks up the narrative of the hapless James Mitchum from a point following his dreadful realization at the conclusion of Jimmy's End. In a grotesque parody of Egyptian funerary rites, James is shepherded less than gently into his unenviable afterlife.

In July 2014, Moore completed the screenplay for a feature film titled The Show, which will continue the story of Show Pieces.[3]

The first, third, and fifth installments have been collected into a feature film, Show Pieces, which airs exclusively on Shudder.

References

  1. ↑ Lamont, Tom (15 December 2012). "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins - 'His Heavy Heart'". Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Johnston, Rich (4 July 2014). "Alan Moore's Feature Film Screenplay, The Show, Is Now Complete". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 8 May 2015.


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