Archive for May, 2009
DN EP 134: Mono – Richard Smith
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week sees us return to the Shooting People Film of the Month winners’ circle and an interview with BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Richard Smith, who stepped away from the keyboard to direct Mono, his self-penned story of a couple separated, yet connected by the wall that divides them. [...]
Mono – Richard Smith
Mono (2006) Two lonely people – Emily and Jay – find themselves living on opposite sides of the same wall. As they become moved by the sounds of each other, they begin communicating through the wall. They engage and connect. After a terrible aural misunderstanding, the silence is deafening, and it’s up to Emily to [...]
DN EP 133: The Patterns Trilogy – Jamie Travis
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sometimes filmmakers come pre-recommended, which often brings the potential for huge disappointment when I eventually get to view their raved about work. However, since seeing the highly stylized films of director Jamie Travis, I too have become an evangelist for his films. Jamie joins me to discuss how [...]
The Patterns Trilogy – Jamie Travis
The Patterns Trilogy (2005/6) A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a tea cup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let’s watch them sing and dance. A suspense thriller, a love story, a dreamscape and a musical extravaganza, The Patterns Trilogy presents, in three parts, the epic anti-romance of Michael and [...]
DN EP 132: The Reason I Collect – Emma Curtis
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week’s guest director Emma Curtis returned to the world of animation following the success of her 2005 installation piece Diary of a Hoarder and the repeated view that the obsessions of artist and collector Paul Escott were a ripe playground for a short film. Emma joins me [...]
The Reason I Collect – Emma Curtis
The Reason I Collect (2008) An animation illustrating the life of a compulsive collector.
DN EP 131: Zoo – Robin Bushell
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The first episode of our collaboration with the mighty Shooting People and their Film of the Month series kicks off with Robin Bushell’s hyper-kinetic animation Zoo. A film selected by Mike Figgis of which he had to say: Zoo is totally charming. It’s a film that is extremely [...]
Zoo – Robin Bushell
Zoo (2008) A trip to the zoo ends in colourful chaos. Watch the full film over at Shooting People
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