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The Great Acting Blog: “Why The Panic Set In, by Alfie Black”

02.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Alfie Black is a London based actor. Throughout my career I have never really suffered any panic attacks whilst performing. That was of course until I filmed the pivotal interior scene from Phone Box Gun. Even though I originally met the writer/di...

The Great Acting Blog: “Phone Box Gun – Full Trailer Now Up”

27.06.2012 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

This blog has become a real fulcrum for me, and I’m very grateful to those who take an interest in it, support it, and offer feedback. As it is, I’m delighted to share with you the full trailer for our new film, Phone Box Gun....

The Great Acting Blog: “Stills From Phone Box Gun”

06.05.2012 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

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The Great Acting Blog: “Rewarding & Enrichiching – Being An Individual Creative Artist”

25.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out this clip, where Mickey, a businessman, verbally dismantles a competitor (contains rude words). In 2008, I wrote my first, and, as yet, my last one man play, called The Call. It was about a businessman, called Mickey, who, upon learning ...

The Great Acting Blog: “A True Actor-Director Collaboration”

29.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness, is a film made up of a series of scenes but there is no through-action – they are linked because each of them is about cinema itself. The film has documentary scenes (as discussed in Part...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Paradox Of Acting – Boredom Of The Disgust And Monotony Of The Tediousness” – Part 2″

27.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

Check out the trailer for our new feature film, part video essay, part fiction. Having completed the documentary scenes for the film, we moved on to the fictional scenes. First up, I was to have an argument with somebody who wasn't in the room, bu...

The Great Acting Blog: “Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness – Part 1”

22.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

As I arrived in Cork, the ever prolific and hardworking Rouzbeh Rashidi informed me that in addition to HE, we were to shoot some scenes for another feature film he was putting together (in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain), and he did so in ...

The Great Acting Blog: “With And Without Object”

20.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

A large part of our work in Cork took place in a empty office block, which had an endless number of rooms, some of them empty, some of them littered with old paperwork and decaying furniture. The whole place had a weird, eerie psycho-geography, ju...

The Great Acting Blog: “Performance Without Rehearsal”

17.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

As I noted in the previous blog, there were no speeches or dialogues to motor my performance because all of that work had been completed in Dublin. In Cork, I only had my face and body and pure physical actions to express myself with. As...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetry Of The Mundane”

15.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Readers of my blogs A Very Mysterious Business and Duologue will know that the bulk, or indeed all of the monologue and duologue scenes for Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, “HE”, were shot in Dublin last September. So, when production resumed i...

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