We understand what happens to us in relation to what we want. The actor who commits the rest of his life to his work, the one who says "I'm never going to stop", reacts differently to the inevitable stresses and strains to the one who...
Read MoreI'm thrilled to inform you that Distracted's Screening Series is now 100% funded. Thank-you again to all backers and supporters for your vote of confidence in the project - it means so much. There's still a few days left in the campaign, please do check it out if...
Read MoreDistracted | @Distractedfilm The Double Life Of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991). Related; 'The Shy Poetry Of Irene Jacob'. Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in Giant (George Stevens, 1956). Nominated by @HansHerklots & @GloriaBB2. Maggie Cheung in In The Mood For Love (Kar-Wai Wong, 2000). @doinel74 nominated this one. "in...
Read MoreHow can we refine our thinking about our work in such a way that it inspires us to take action? Afterall, our thinking needs to be in good order because what we think eventually becomes what we do. Make a list of people who you would...
Read More"When asked to describe his enduring collaboration with Swinton over the years, Guadagnino pauses. “Tilda is a filmmaker, not just an actress. She has a great knowledge of the machine of the making of a movie and this is very profound, because it’s like working...
Read More"Acting is in many ways unique in it's difficulties because the artist has to use the treacherous, changeable and mysterious material of himself as his medium" - Peter Brook, The Act Of Possession...
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Distracted (57 mins, UK, 2018) Buy Now 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. An ironic policiers about Detective Henry Baker, assigned to a murder which he has no interest in solving....
Read MoreAre you afraid of what people will think? People will guess at what you're doing and they will guess wrongly, so you might as well do what you want anyway. Flip-side; you cannot know what other people are thinking, so don't worry about it. Do what you...
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https://vimeo.com/308798171 Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and best wishes for 2019. Thank-you for all your support of and interest in my work over the past 12 months - 2018 was of course the year production was completed on Distracted. The next stage is to distribute the...
Read MoreIn reverse chronological order Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973) Treasure Of The Bitch Islands (FJ Ossang, 1990) The Case Of The Morituri Divisions (FJ Ossang, 1985) Hellzapoppin's (HC Potter, 1941) Dharma Guns (FJ Ossang, 2010) Wild Guitar (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1962) Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (Larry E Jackson, 1967) Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Landscape...
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