Unhomely Street
Unhomely Street follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders an alienating city underbelly of clubs and free parties. Through recollections of anti-capitalist conversations, historical information about wartime atrocity, and human brutality, she searches for hope in an increasingly frightening, subjective landscape.
The film explores the Derridean concept of hauntology both in terms of its original context taken from Spectres of Marx where Derrida suggests that ‘time is out of joint’ and that we are haunted by spectres of those dead and those not yet born, as well as recognising Mark Fisher's interpretation that mourns the lost futures of the twentieth century, suggesting we live in a time of mental illness, unable to envisage a future that is different to current times.
At the Wither Marxism? conference, California, 1993, where the term hauntology was first used, a conference aimed at exploring the future of Marxism following the fall the Berlin wall in 1989, Derrida states ‘the world is going badly’. Twenty three years on we live in an age of digital capitalism and according to Michael LePage, writing for the New Scientist in 2015, we face a mass extinction of the Anthropocene, the geological era that began with the industrial revolution and defined as the period when human activity began to have a profound global impact. This underpins the multiple narrative strands that question whether humankind's behaviour is inevitably underpinned by brutality.
Unhomely Street is a deeply personal film that aims to employ new approaches to filmmaking through multiple narrative strands and a focus on tone and metaphor in an attempt to communicate a subjective experience.
Unhomely Street premiered at the 63rd International Short Film Festival of Oberhausen in May 2017.
The film explores the Derridean concept of hauntology both in terms of its original context taken from Spectres of Marx where Derrida suggests that ‘time is out of joint’ and that we are haunted by spectres of those dead and those not yet born, as well as recognising Mark Fisher's interpretation that mourns the lost futures of the twentieth century, suggesting we live in a time of mental illness, unable to envisage a future that is different to current times.
At the Wither Marxism? conference, California, 1993, where the term hauntology was first used, a conference aimed at exploring the future of Marxism following the fall the Berlin wall in 1989, Derrida states ‘the world is going badly’. Twenty three years on we live in an age of digital capitalism and according to Michael LePage, writing for the New Scientist in 2015, we face a mass extinction of the Anthropocene, the geological era that began with the industrial revolution and defined as the period when human activity began to have a profound global impact. This underpins the multiple narrative strands that question whether humankind's behaviour is inevitably underpinned by brutality.
Unhomely Street is a deeply personal film that aims to employ new approaches to filmmaking through multiple narrative strands and a focus on tone and metaphor in an attempt to communicate a subjective experience.
Unhomely Street premiered at the 63rd International Short Film Festival of Oberhausen in May 2017.
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Snake Shifter and the Bone Chair
This is a recently completed 10 minute film, created primarily to practice and improve new CGI & digital compositing skills. In a further attempt to gain software experience I did all the practical tasks including the sound recording, track-laying and composing & performing the songs (quite badly).
Starring Zinnia & Harvey Gent-Salmon with Tom Salmon as the voice of the 'Snake Shifter' this is a very homespun film.
This is a recently completed 10 minute film, created primarily to practice and improve new CGI & digital compositing skills. In a further attempt to gain software experience I did all the practical tasks including the sound recording, track-laying and composing & performing the songs (quite badly).
Starring Zinnia & Harvey Gent-Salmon with Tom Salmon as the voice of the 'Snake Shifter' this is a very homespun film.
The Japanese Poo Girl Song - this one's just crap but I did manage to grow hair in Maya!