Lockdown Video Shorts.
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During the Lockdown of 2020,
I dedicated time to making Video Shorts as an outlet for creativity
and as a way of cradling mental sanity.
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Lockdown Boulevard
(adapted from ‘Sunset Boulevard’, Movie and Musical)
Made in different parts of my house.
In all, this was a 5 week project: endless prepping then shooting over 4 days and nights.
Done alone.
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Prospero / The Tempest.
“Ye Elves” – Act 5 Sc 1
The first Lockdown video I made was for a group project, ‘The Tempest’,
which was made scene by scene by different artists.
I used a single set up and moved a camera above my own face and around the set..
Done alone, as with the Sunset Boulevard short.
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A Sense of Dawn
(il Verso dell’Alba)
This film was a commission from the culture office of my Town Hall.
They wanted a filmed performance to mark the stepping away from severe quarantine to the next phase of opening up.
The Photographer / Filmmaker, my collaborator, was Francesco Ferrarini.
(“Uncle Chris lives where the Fairy tales are!”)