Client: Poetry vs Colonialism | City of London
Agency: Neon Chameleon | Prodigious London
Role: Directing | Cinematography | Editing
Agency: Neon Chameleon | Prodigious London
Role: Directing | Cinematography | Editing
_the Challenge
To shoot 8 distincively different poetry films in 4 days. To create poetry films which explore colonial history and can be viewed both artistically and for educational purposes. Three prestigious funders, (yet) extreme budget and logistics limitations, 8 poets, smallest creative team, the tiniest of crews, and zero willingness to sacrifice production value nor quality.
_the Solution
Helen's poem is rich of past haunting the present - implications of The Partition and Opium Wars influencing her family, herself and inevitably future generations. All one can do is to learn about it, acknowledge the history and try to find their place in all this. And that's exactly where we've placed her - both metaphorically, and quite literally in the middle of this complex story. Thanks to the kind hosting from Keats House London.
