Tag Archives: desire
Fionn McArthur writes:
Here’s a project I’ve been working on for a few months now. It has plenty of scenic shots from around Sligo. Once I heard the speech “If Money Were No Object” by Alan Watts. I knew I could relate to it and try to capture cinematic shots that would correspond to the speech.
So whenever I found free time before or after work I was out filming, planning or location scouting shots. The majority of the sunny shots have weeks in between them. Any other filmmaker in Ireland will tell you the weather is never on your side when you need it. It was tough at times. I couldn’t help but feel like a one man army sometimes. It really goes to show that a crew would be a help, even a crew as little as two people would be a huge help.
Fancy a little diversion from the festive juggernaut?
Alex Grybauskas’s multi award-winning short is a new take on the classic ‘deal with the Devil’ premise, exposing the absurd human habit of rationalising evil in order to get the things we want.
On the floor of a bar restroom, a man on his deathbed is met by Danny Pickler: a former classmate of his … who died twenty-six years ago. On the brink of damnation, he is offered a deal that could save his life – but in the process may destroy his humanity.
Andrew Griffin and animator Scott Garrett ask the following question of singular individuals:
So, if you could have any one thing, just the one wish fulfilled, anything at all, what would you choose?