Waiting to Shoot

On Reflection #7

Two weeks down and three to do. We filmed and filmed. Got burnt by the sun and shivered in chill winds. We laughed and collapsed and ran and lazed and fainted and swam and threw ourselves into the film like madmen and revellers. We disappeared into scenes of fighting and kissing and sleeping and waking, of love and languor and laughter and confusion and pain. The time passed impossibly quickly. We shaved every day to the skin. And through it all we got glimpses of the film that lies on the other side... and, damn, that was a beautiful thing.

Small Mercies #4

Looking through rushes of Small Mercies, working on overdue scripts, casting for 'Galore', watching bad movies searching for good visual references for fire and smoke (and yes, yes, I've watched 'Backdraft', 'Volcano' and 'Dante's Peak'), cutting cashmoney jobs, responding to endless overdue phonecalls and emails, fucking nightmarishly dirty desk to clean... so much to do but rather than work effectively, I thought I'd glean a few more snaps from last week's shoot while I thrash the living daylights out of Cat Power's new record.

these glimpses...

 

crew, cold, skies...

the joy of watching an actor prepare...

these lovers and this sky...

 

this well oiled machine...

...and, for now, that is all...

Small Mercies #3

More glimpses viewed from the corner of the eye in passing...