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Chris

for films look at www.myspace.com/whiteratfilms

About Me

living in Edinburgh, making films (below), writing comics (check out Outercorner's site as we are are working on a comic together), living chaos. must work, must make films, must go out, must stop going out, need to work more, need to make more films, need some more sleep, chaos, madness, self abuse, am i indestructible? answers on a fucking postcard please...HERE'S THE LATEST VIDEO - Nights Not Over - Crisis Project

Add to My Profile | More VideosUnion Of Knives had a competition a while back to make a video for thier song "Evil Has Never", I missed the deadline, but made this after the fact... I like it, but i'd love to know what other people think of it so please leave a comment about itEvil Has Never - Union of Knives
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Add to My Profile | More VideosDid this one while ago actually, just a bit of a fuck about really... got a bit of a thing for cards, love this song, so made this... The song is Girl/Boy Song by Aphex TwinGirl/Boy Cards
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Add to My Profile | More VideosThis is a trailer for my feature film Happy F------ Endings, which I'm still punting around festivals, played at Dances with Films in LA during the summer. The trailer is like the film, twitchy and wierd and not making a hell of a lot of sense... kinda like me, hahaHappy F------ Endings Trailer
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Add to My Profile | More VideosI did door to door sales for an EVIL company called Southwestern when i was a student... NEVER EVER DO SALES!!! anywayz, here's my interpretation... HAHAExpectation

Add to My Profile | More VideosDid this one fucking ages ago, in fact it's the first film i ever made i think. Dunno, I like the camera work, but it's too long and needs music and a voice over instead of captions, but i reckon i'd be better off making new shit, so thats what i'm doing....Chess
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My Interests

films, graphic novels, books, music, clubbing and partying til stupid o'clock, talking crap... chess

I'd like to meet:

gimme gimme bands, want to make music videos, trying to build up a showreel, other film makers too would always be good, and other manic quarter life crisis twenty something nothin's

Music:

NoFX, Blur, Spiritualized, Lynyrd Skynyrd, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Prodigy, Greenday, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Velvet Underground, Nico, David Bowie, Nirvana, Everclear, Third Eye Blind, Sublime, Our Lady Peace, Ben Folds Five, The Eels, Saves the Day, Linkin Park (I don't care what you people say I'll keep my teenage angst for years to come yet), Primal Scream, The Streets, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Portishead, Massive Attack, Johnny Cash, The Killers, Ian Brown, The Stone Roses, The Violent Femmes...

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Akira, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout, Donnie Darko, Brick, Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, New Year's Day, Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Orphans, This Year's Love, Human Traffic, Late Night Shopping, 24 Hour Party People, 9 Songs, Chopper, Bringing Out The Dead, Pi, I Love Huckabees, Three Kings, Pieces of April, Gridlock'd, Pitch Black, Cube, Evil Dead (all of), Dog Soldiers, Full Metal Jacket, anything by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Pump Up The Volume, All Kevin Smith films except Jersey Girl, Heat, Copland, most of the stuff by James Mangold, Mysterious Skin, Irreversible (although I am never ever watching it again), Romeo + Juliet, Watership Down, 'Paris, Texas', Rushmore, 'Scotland, Pa', Dawn of the Dead, Anything by Danny Boyle, although i haven't seen his latest, Almost Famous, Thirteen, As Good as it Gets, Amelie, La Haine, Buffalo 66, Natural Born Killers, Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Jarhead, Nothing So Strange, Sexy Beast, Flatliners, Go, The Matrix (come on now boys, you made a really good film there, whatcha doin ay?), .... aye, on and on...

Television:

Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Teachers, Shameless, The Mighty Boosh, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, ER, The Sopranos, Cracker...

Books:

Good Omens, Glamorama, The Watchmen, Trainspotting, Blankets, Farenheit 451, a lot of Charles Bukowski recently, Women, Factotum, Post Office, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984, Brave New World, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, The Dark Night Returns, Sin City, Akira (although still can't afford the last three books), Neuromancer, Watership Down, anything by Nick Hornby, Harry Potter, Lonesome Dove, Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, American Psycho, V for Vendetta, Calvin and Hobbes, The Sandman Series, American Gods...

Heroes:

Johnny Cash, Christopher Nolan, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Skinner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, John Lennon, David Mamet, Micheal Winterbottom, Edward Norton, John Simm, Bill Hicks, Wolverine, Kevin Smith, Douglas Adams, Peter Jackson, Charlie Kaufman, Chris Cunningham, my parents, Calvin & Hobbes

My Blog

Drunken Dormouse - The Banana Sessions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZtGy7DLcK4 Latest vid, as always, comments welcome...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:48:00 PST

Coffee

    C O F F E E Original Screenplay By Chris Thompson                   21/11/04   Draft 1   ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:43:00 PST

The Gap

            T H E  G A P Original Screenplay By Chris Thompson                   ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:15:00 PST