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Composure (coming soon)

 

Composure is a neo-absurdist mystery noir, a psychological twilight thriller, set in a fictional world somewhere  between Classical Hollywood and European art-house. Webster is an urbane villain in catastrophe, a criminal mastermind who’s lost the plot. The film charts his melancholy decline into sadness, delusion and alcoholic psychedelics.

 

When the man who’s blackmailing him mysteriously vanishes, Webster sets out to discover what happened. His journey takes him back through the cheap, underworld culture of which he’d been a part, but he discovers that too is vanishing, as those he knows flee their crimes. Webster is left holed-up in his isolated beach-house, bewildered and vulnerable, with only his fears and a bottle of Scotch for company.  Can he piece together the fate of his blackmailer from the fragments of evidence around him and so save his sanity?

 

Written & directed by James Devereaux.

 

Distracted (57 mins, UK, 2018)

 

A bored detective has no interest in solving the murder he has been assigned to, preferring to drink scotch and read novels. His new partner, however, is desperate for promotion. An absurd comedy of contrasts unfolds in elegant black and white.

 

A tragi-comic detective story, Distracted undermines the conventions of the genre in order to explore the absurdity of one man’s state of being.

 

Written & Directed by James Devereaux

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Noir-ish Project (66 mins, UK, 2014)

 

Bleak, melancholy, neorealist feature film masquerading as film noir. A couple of low-lifes try to make some quick cash but end up just waiting around.

 

Noirish Project is a melancholy and gently comic feature film about Billy, who steals his family’s precious pearls and hands them over to low-life Jimmy (played by James Devereaux), who in turn takes them to a fence. But when the pearls turn out to be fake, Jimmy barely escapes from the fence with his life, let alone the pearls. Billy and Jimmy endevour to get the pearls back before Billy’s family finds out they’re gone, but when the fence goes missing, they realise their story has only just begun.

 

Shot in black and white, Noirish Project is a neo-realist fantasy, featuring moments of peculiar poetry and gentle comedy.

 

Written & directed by James Devereaux.

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