Ned Ambler

Water People

WATER PEOPLE is an erotic and painful allegory of dark desire featuring blazing performances by its lead actors. Stew, a guitarist and intellectual, is traveling to the country with his girlfriend Carrie and their dog, Max, to Stew's recently-deceased grandmother's home to deal with her estate. Just as death is palpable in the house with its eerily silent rooms filled with boxes of decaying furniture and old photographs to be auctioned off, so too is the couple's relationship creeping toward an unspoken demise. Stew, who suffers from an unknown ailment and is in a perpetual state of denial, frantically clutches at his over-sexed girlfriend, who resents being tied down by any man. She sets her designs on an unwitting local gardener and uses him as a pawn in her game of sexual manipulation and destruction. Through voyeuristic imagery and a deafening silence, the tension builds to a climax.

Rock Star

Heaven Scent, an agoraphobic rock star, is preparing for a big show at Madison Square Garden as a calvacade of transsexuals, punk rockers on motorbikes, rival musicians, and a dominatrix and her Russian muscle slave, drop by her loft.

Bound + Gagging

16mm short film by Ned Ambler.