Visitors production Update |
Most of the keyed backgrounds are now shot and in position.Jex and I were only busted once, at night, sneaking around a refinery installation in Trafford Park with camera gear. This echoes the securit...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:52:00 GMT |
Visitors Shoot |
Howard Walmsley manages to kick his jazz filmmaking habit (for a weekend anyway) and work with a script!More Truncheon Less HeadWe finally shot the live action parts for the Visitors. I wanted the p...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:19:00 GMT |
Spheres |
Playing saxophone inside an inflatable sphere in Manchester - maybe 1983.The police tried to stop the performance but ultimately gave us an escort.It was hot and sticky in there but sounded great!
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:07:00 GMT |
Dust of a Q List Celebrity |
There is a blue polythene bag on the hotel dressing table. The hotel is in Lian Yun Gang, Jiangsu province, China, home of taiji Master, Liu Yong.I am with my Taiji buddy, Ali Walmsley, who had been a...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:44:00 GMT |
Wing Chun Seminar with Grandmaster Ip Chun. |
I just found some old photos&Until his recent retirement, Grandmaster Ip Chun would tour the world giving training seminars to groups of enthusiastic students. He is the son of Ip Man, who is consider...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:30:00 GMT |
Rebuilding Edward Barton |
I first met Edward while working for Ikon in about 1986. Ikon (Factory Records video offshoot) had embarked on production of 'A Wooden Video' with Ed, but director Malcolm Whitehead had got spooked an...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:14:00 GMT |
In Production : The Visitors |
A sci..fi doomsday story influenced by the Outer Limits TV series.In collaboration with writer / director Krishna Stott. I had wanted to make a film featuring low-tech insectoid creatures. This would ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:13:00 GMT |
Edward Barton Book Launch |
16/10/06 18.30 Edward Barton - book of poems - BAD LEG - launch party at Matt and Phred in Manchester.We wil be screning MY MUM MY DOG, MY DOG MY MUM a short video about mothers dogs and loss. Ed will...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:59:00 GMT |
Earthquakeland Directors notes |
In 2002 Manchester was experiencing a swarm of minor earthquakes, an unlikely and strange phenomenon, much covered in the media at the time. Just after an earthquake, my own experience was of a sense ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:46:00 GMT |
