Monika K. Adler Director
Monika K. Adler Production
Ontology Pictures is a London-based film production company specialising in boutique psychological horror films that tackle pressing social issues. Our focus is on crafting visually stunning, intellectually sophisticated dramas that explore the human psyche. With projects like 'Sick Bacchus' and 'First Hour After Violent Death', we're dedicated to creating intense, intimate cinematic experiences that linger.
MONIKA K. ADLER, IS AN ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER WHO HAS EXHIBITED HER WORK WORLDWIDE.
WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK, MONIKA HAS WORKED ON MANY HIGH-PROFILE PROJECTS, INCLUDING FIRST OPEN FOR CHRISTIE’S AUCTION HOUSE, RANKIN’S 2020 FOR SKY ARTS TV, AND 209 WOMEN FOR THE UK PARLIAMENT.
BETWEEN 2013 AND 2023, MONIKA WAS REPRESENTED BY ART & COMMERCE AND VOGUE ITALIA AND OVER THE YEARS HAS JUDGED A RANGE OF HIGH-PROFILE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS, INCLUDING THE GOLDEN SHOT AWARDS AND MONOVISIONS.
IN 2018, SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY’S HUNDRED HEROINES AWARD FOR HER OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AS A FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER.
MONIKA IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON TWO FEATURE FILMS, SICK BACCHUS AND THE FIRST HOUR AFTER VIOLENT DEATH.
Overview
NationalityPoland
LanguagesPolish (mother tongue), English (fluent), English – American (fluent), English – British (fluent), French (basic), Italian (basic), Russian (basic)
BornPoland, Mazowieckie
Work permitEuropean Union, Great Britain, United States
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2029
The First Hour After Violent Death
Ontology Pictures
Feature film (cinema)
Film noir, Mystery, Thriller
Monika K. Adler
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In the midst of London’s vibrant tourist scene, a beautiful young woman known only as “The Doll’ orchestrates a chilling assassination. As her life flashes before her eyes, we see the dark journey that led her to this moment – from exploitation and degradation to a desperate bid for control over her own mortality. A haunting exploration of the human condition, The First Hour After Violent Death is a gripping thriller that exposes the darkest corners of human nature.
2027
Monika K. Adler
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Violetta, a woman from London's wealthy elite, gets caught up in a game with her doctor; the true purpose of which will change her forever.
2026
Migratory Romance
Short film
Adventure, Biography, Experimental
Monika K Adler
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For those who live on the margins of society, there exists, in migration, a kind of “non-state”; one where movement becomes an act of emancipation and transgression. There we found a beginning. Nomadic. In our naiveté, there was a place of real autonomy. As the forces of territorial fixation grew in this place, the hierarchy holding it together became more rigid, entangled. Then, after a while, something else changed, something imperceptible, something in the blood; the garrotte was inside minds
2023
Monika K. Adler
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A phase-shifted dream, sequenced from revolutionary surrealism's mitochondrial DNA. Fragments from the psyches of the women surrealists who sought to unleash themselves from the "male-shaped symbolic order," and through fascism, war, and exile, found their own voices and community. The figure of an anthropomorphic poodle dog, referencing its appearance in the works of Dorothea Tanning and Leonor Fini, acts as both an observer and latent spectre of liberation. (c) Aeon Rose
2022
Monika K. Adler
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An immigrant from Eastern Europe recalls his life disrupted by war.
2017
Monika K. Adler
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A female artist reinterprets and embodies the ideas of famous feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir into her own life. A female artist reinterprets and embodies the ideas of famous feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir into her own life.
2014
Monika K. Adler
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The descendant of a Gulag internee undergoes repressed trauma borne from a history of genocide across generations. He attempts to exorcise the still present collective memory through a disturbing re-enactment.
