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A masked man is trapped in the static on a TV set that looks like the surface of the moon in this sound based film.

EXQUISITE CORPSES

The surrealists were great fans of Victorian parlour games such as THE EXQUISTE CORPSE.This can be a game of random drawings making a whole or a story with words.
Sometimes surprising combinations create strange synchonicity.

CLUB THUMB

Here is a pile of art work for ClubThumb (2006) and part of the storyboard when it was up on the wall.The B+W board is colour coded so we knew what we had done,what we were doing and what we had to do.

Six Word Stories

The story goes that Hemmingway wrote a super short six word story for a ten dollar bet.That story is probably the most economic but resonant pieces of flash fiction ever written.

"For sale; Babys shoes,never worn"

This is a great exercise for authors of micro movies and animation in that it excises all fat and resonates way beyond it's confines into off screen space.
There are now countless websites and schemes dedicated such essentialised prose.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/sixwordlife_20080205.shtml

The Dark Lantern

David Soul in a still from The Dark Lantern

In the film, David performs weird actions with a grotesque Lanterna Magica for a mute devil puppet sat alone in antique stalls.At about the same time we bought a copy of one of David's best selling albums from the Seventies 'Playing for an Audience of One' (which includes the excellent 'Silver Lady' with the sublime line "the one shining thing in my life was the sweet love I had with you"). On the back cover is a photo of a young bored or sleeping boy (actually David's son) sitting alone in the stalls of a theatre...

SPORE WINE

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