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   Well here is the bit most of you are interested. The free films, download them here. If you really like what you see on here today, drop me an email and I can send you a DVD with even more films. Maybe we could even make some films together, who knows? But first get watching, and enjoy.

These films are encoded in a mixture of Quick Time 6 and Quick Time 7 format. If you need to download the player for these films, you can get it free from those nice people at Apple.

  On the harmonica On the harmonica  
Louis in a mask On the harmonica

On the harmonica

The Mask

Running Time [ 11:16 ] Download (19.6MB) (Quick Time v6)

   This was my first work that could be called a short film. Like many of the best things it was wholly unplanned. Featuring two of my house mates Louis and Calvin, after a certain amount of intoxication. The film starts as we leave Withington, heading into Manchester.

   It all started when we converted a home made lampshade we had into the mask you see in the film. We decided to head out to Manchester's Northern Quarter. This film is the consequence of that night out. After the first minute of the film nothing you see was staged, it just happened that way. This seems to add a gritty reality to the whole film.

In Piccadilly GardensCredits

Featuring
Calvin
Louis

Producer
Pete Blacker

Apologies to
Mat and Freds Bar

 
  Mask at a bus stop
       

  At the table At the table  
Daisy Fairground Road At the table

At the table

Daisy Fairground (48 hour film challenge)

Running Time [ 4:55 ] Download (15.4MB) (Quick Time v6)

   On the weekend of 16th of August 2003, Over 300 teams around the UK took part in the National 48 Hour Film Challenge. To find out more about this competition visit the challenge website. I put together a team for this event and in slightly under 48 hours we had produced this short film.

   After very little sleep, a great deal of caffeine, a few re-shoots, and a weekend of beautiful weather we had a final cut. This film has remained unchanged since the very end of the challenge. A couple of parts of the film could be easily improved, but we decided to leave it in its genuine form.

Credits

A dead guy on the floor
Featuring
  Louis Sweeting
Adrian Darby
Pete Blacker
Dawn Chapman
Alex Pilkington
Calvin ------
Music   Alex Pilkington
Calvin ------
 
Graphics   Louis Sweeting  
Sound   Chris Macswell  
Runner & Stunts
  Gary Lee  
Producer
  Pete Blacker
 

 
  Running after a bike
       

  TV getting a beating TV getting a beating  
Typewriter TV getting a beating

TV getting a beating

Mark & Ben

Running Time [ 6:16 ] Download (16.4MB) (Quick Time v6)

   Stand up comics, Ben Worthy & Mark Talbot, are regular performers on the Manchester comedy circuit. I made this short film with them to introduce their act at some of their gigs. Just like their comedy this film is an eclectic collection of unusual ideas loosely tied together, always asking more questions than it's answering.

    Most of this film was shot in a morning, with the exception of the tracking shot of Ben butt naked on a bike filmed a week later. Post production took two days, including getting effects shots of the typewriter.

Credits

Written & Performed by
Ben Worthy
Mark Talbot

Nude guy on a bikeFeaturing
Louis Sweeting
Matthieu Pegorie

Camera Car Driver
Alex Reiche

Produced & Directed by
Pete Blacker

 
  A Frenchman ranting
       

  Rachel at a kiln Rachel at a kiln  
Hanging pods Rachel at a kiln

Rachel at a kiln

Rachel Hoyle Ceramics

Running Time [ 18:36 ] Download (34.5MB) (Quick Time v6)

   In June 2003 Rachel Hoyle presented her first solo art exhibition in the Atkinson Gallery in Southport. She commissioned me to make this 19min documentary taking you from the conception of the exhibition, to the private opening of the exhibition on the 4th of June. From making the ceramic pods in the workshop to creating the full pieces in the gallery itself, this film shows how this exhibition was made.

   The documentary was filmed over a month and a half leading up to the opening of the exhibition, and took three days to edit.

Credits

Pods at opening nightFeaturing the work of
Rachel Hoyle

Special Thanks to
The Atkinson Art Gallery
Manchester Metropolitan University

Produced by
Pete Blacker

 
  Rachel hanging the pods