If I am really really lucky then I’m going to spend the next eighteen months making a film with my friend Jacob Polley about the most amazing house I have ever been in…

If I am really really lucky then I’m going to spend the next eighteen months making a film with my friend Jacob Polley about the most amazing house I have ever been in…

A few years back I sat down with a friend of mine Clive Tonge to write a short horror film called Sunday Best for him to direct. Clive had made a number of cracking shorts (including Emily & The Baba Yaga which has almost 300,000 hits on Youtube) but had run into a brick wall with funders running shorts schemes in the UK who wanted him to ditch his darker side and make something sweet and fluffy; and because they knew best he didn’t get to make Sunday Best, or any films for that matter for a long long time. So last summer, frustrated at sitting around waiting from someone to give him permission to make a film, he transformed his house into a studio, talked some friends into crewing from him and shot the film for nothing but love. And now its finished and its bloody good and sticks a nice big finger up to everyone who told him not to go too dark. Find out more here.

Since 1989 Stuart Roy Clarke has been photographing the changing face of football across the UK and beyond and has amassed an enormous archive of photos, which from May will find a permanent home at the National Football Museum in Manchester. I’m working with Stuart and my team of young filmmakers at Northern Stars to create a new piece of work that will play in the gallery during the exhibition. It’ll be made up of archive video from the last fifteen years - my first professional commission for a broadcaster was to make a profile of him in 1996 - as well as new material. And going by the image above, he’s trying to qualify for my Looking After Elvis project…

Since 1989 Stuart Roy Clarke has been photographing the changing face of football across the UK and beyond and has amassed an enormous archive of photos, which from May will find a permanent home at the National Football Museum in Manchester. I’m working with Stuart and my team of young filmmakers at Northern Stars to create a new piece of work that will play in the gallery during the exhibition. It’ll be made up of archive video from the last fifteen years - my first professional commission for a broadcaster was to make a profile of him in 1996 - as well as new material. And going by the image above, he’s trying to qualify for my Looking After Elvis project…

Here’s a little film Northern Stars made to send out over the festivities. 

Time Machine on Slide Share

 

Here’s the teaser for the Time Machine ARG I’ve been working on for the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. Full update on this project soon…