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About Me

Contrarian and independent film-maker currently working on a feature-length music documentary entitled "UNCHARTED WRECKS OF WONDER" about 1970s punk/new wave band THE ADVERTS and their former frontman turned singer-songwriter TV SMITH (project currently in post-production). More details to follow as the project nears completion.
Also developing the following projects:
(1) A 30 minute digital short "THE RATMAN" about a pest control engineer who gets himself caught up in blackmail and extortion.
(2) A feature-length psychodrama/horror entitled "SOMETHING UGLY" which chronicles an unstable marriage’s collapse into anarchy and bloody retribution (completed script).
(3) An as yet untitled feature-length project about an amnesiac invloved in a complicated love triangle (project in outline/treatment stage).
(4) An as yet untitled feature-length film noir project about a school janitor who reluctantly decides to commit an abhorrent crime in the belief that there is a utilitarian justification (project in outline/treatment stage).
My previous experience as a writer-director amounts to:
(1) A 15 minute, 35mm black and white short "PAUL’S LUCKY DAY", a Faustian tale about a gambling junkie (see Awards - left)
(2) A 20 minute, Super16 colour short "QUAGMIRE" about a sulphate-addicted paparazzo’s descent into paranoia. Originally entitled "ARTHUR", Quagmire was conceived as one segment of a five-part portmanteau feature film, conceptually based around the five senses. The feature (imaginatively entitled SENSES) was released in Germany in November 2006. For further info, please see: www.five-senses.co.uk
I’m interested in ground-breaking, original and transgressive art and keen to make contact with those interested in same. Anyone wanting more info on any of the above or wishing to see a showreel DVD can contact me here.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Creative people with original minds. God knows they are few and far between.
And by the way, please do not contact me with a friend request unless you are an individual (as opposed to a band, film, website or prostitute indiscriminately promoting yourself). If you are in any doubt, then please at least personalise your request with an email.

Music:

25 of my favourite albums: Another Side of Bob Dylan, Forever Changes by Love, The Band's second LP, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones, Foxtrot by Genesis, Raw Power by Iggy And The Stooges, Late Night Movies All Night Brainstorms by The Doctors Of Madness, Kings Of Oblivion by The Pink Fairies, Doc at the Radar Station by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Station to Station by David Bowie, Marquee Moon by Television, Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts, Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, LAMF by The Heartbreakers, Highway to Hell by ACDC, The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu, Chairs Missing by Wire, Metal Box by PiL, Tender Prey by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rain Dogs by Tom Waits, Surfer Rosa by Pixies, almost any album by The Fall, Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey, Dig Me Out by Sleater Kinney

Movies:

LIKES: 13, Accident, Badlands, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Casino, Cul de Sac, Five Easy Pieces, The Game, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Honeymoon Killers, The Idiots, Julien Donkey-Boy, Last Tango In Paris, The Man in the White Suit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Memento, The Music of Chance, Notorious, Repo Man, Seul Contre Tous, The Seventh Continent, Shock Corridor, Straw Dogs, La Strada, The Sweet Smell of Success, Themroc, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, Viridiana.
DISLIKES: Films by Jim Jarmusch and irritating American independent films that do well at Sundance. Also patronising, well-meaning middlebrow rubbish such as Paul Haggis' Crash or that much beloved "classic" The Shawshank Redemption.

Books:

JG Ballard, Georges Batailles, Charles Bukowski, Norman Mailer, Nathanael West.

Heroes:

always disappoint you.