That's a Wrap!

14th December 2023. Last day of filming for Contour.

Every project you embark on you learn something new. Or at least that should be the case. In the 2 years of making this short film, I certainly picked up a fair share of things I will no doubt take with me on future films. Some are technical but the most valuable are those that can’t be verbalised. This is how it is with directing. It cannot be taught, it can only be learned through throwing yourself into the deep end. Constantly.

Making this film was a real slog having been shot mostly on location in Kent, London, Port Talbot, and Bath. This is one of the reasons it took so long to film. That said, I’d been incredibly lucky with the weather overall, not to mention guerrilla filmmaking in areas that otherwise needed permission (and a bank load of money to boot). All worth it though, not least because it brought me closer to my ancestral homeland and enabled me to share that journey with others.

A big thanks to everyone who helped.

The Task of Art

“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty…

A poet never rests. He’s always working, even when he dreams. Besides, the life of a writer, is a lonely one. You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the centre of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but who love you. And that is an immense reward.”

- Jorge Luis Borges

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