I was having a conversation recently about notions of perfection. Nothing was concluded, as is often the way, other than it is an unattainable standard. Everything can always be better. In seeking perfection the only thing measurable is the distance by which we fail. Perfection can only ever truly exist in the moment. This has […]
Secret Bristol Whenever you visit a new city it’s all well and good visiting the essential sights, but what’s often more interesting is taking a leftfield detour. The path less trodden is often where you’ll locate the real heart and soul of a place. So with a cheery nod to the less-celebrated but more quirky, here are some […]
Find Florence Florence is an 11-year-old Basset who at certain times of the year occasionally appears to melt into the scenery thanks to her landscape-coloured coat. It’s a neat trick and would be handy for creeping up on squirrels if she was murderously inclined. As she has no interest in killing small animals in the […]
It Was Acceptable in The 80’s The Dam Busters was broadcast on British terrestrial TV on a Sunday afternoon recently. The film, made in 1955, charts the progress of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that were used to destroy German dams during the second world war. There’s an innocuous scene fairly early in the narrative when […]
How do you transform media that has traditionally been a passive experience into one in which the viewer/user has some agency? That is the question facing contemporary filmmakers wishing to venture into the cutting edge world of interactive documentary making, and the one I’ll be attempting to answer in this article. I’ll be taking a […]