FICTION
SeEPERS: a love story
Seepers: A Love Story is the debut feature film from Gory Hole Films and was made in the spirit of early Peter Jackson and John Waters. It's an oddball, slightly gross, weirdly sweet horror comedy set in the near future where fuel has run out (!) and people are mined for their natural gas. Topical much?
It took a little over 18 months, a little under £10k and as much help as we could muster. I taught myself After Effects to animate the opening titles, I learned to fly a drone for the aerial photography, I (briefly) acted in it, I shot about a quarter of it, I even designed much of the marketing.
As well as being a real reminder of why I got into making films in the first place, something I begun to forget, but it proved to be a real lifeline during lockdown and helped reforge many old friendships. Collaborating with my friends on this was a real and true highlight of the covid times.
SPREADS: A SEEPERS PROLOGUE
Director of photography
A short film to support the release of Seepers: A Love Story.
Before Seepers, but after Threads, there was Spreads, a short reflection on Sheffield as the centre of the seeper explosion, as a city ravaged by a exploitative economy, as a people living in fear and by a weird smell hanging around the industrial complexes of this once thriving world.
I shot this.
THEY FUCK Y*U UP
Director of photography
The next film from the Seepers team will be a slasher movie origin flick / musical and we start production on it in early 2023. This is the teaser trailer than I shot.
Renaissance Frank
Producer
My 3rd year student film from 1999, included here for completions sake.
“Episode 196 of the BBC's flagship culture show 'Miasma' celebrating the life and work of blind artist "Renaissance' Frank O'Grady.”