INSPIRATIONS

One of my favourite movie trailers... 

Marnie (Hitchcock - 1964)

One of my biggest problems with the film industry of today is that everyone takes themselves so fucking seriously. They forget that the purpose of the film is to entertain. 

Films today are mostly concerned with trying to copy or out-do films that already exist. There's no room for risk, no room for provocation - and when art ceases to be provocative it's just craft. You can find the word 'Art' in craft, but you'll have an 'F' and a 'C' left over. That's for 'Fucking castrated'.  

Daphne Oram, 1950s pioneer electronic musician. Just .... amazing. 

Yayoi Kusama: World's coolest octogenarian.

If you mix these next ones together, you probably have the limits of my mind, the keys to everything I shall ever create. And all of them I was introduced to in my childhood by my elder brother. Good job Mark! Where would I be without him...? 

David Hockney:

Dark Star:

Luis Bunuel: 

Monty Python: 

Kurt Vonnegut: 

Douglas Adams: 

and then there's the movies I was introduced to at film school in the 90s... like this one: 'Panic in the streets' - a great, exciting movie, entirely made up as they went along - literally typing pages of script out in the morning before they shot scenes. 

And saving the best for last... Aside from Kubrick's 2001, this is the single largest influence on my film making.... one unbroken shot, a static camera, and the meaning of life thrown in for good measure. I saw this at art school before I'd even considered shooting a frame of film and nothing has ever affected me more.... it is.... 

TANGO