Killing Time
(22 minute film)
A film made in a quarantine hotel facility in Taiwan during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. Locked away in a strict government facility for 15 days, I turn the camera onto myself. What at first seems to be a film about being trapped in a hotel room soon reveals a desperate need to record.
Killing Time Trailer
Killing Time - Behind The Scenes
A short behind the scenes insight to the making of Killing Time. Both films were filmed, cut, sound designed and edited whilst in the confinement of the hotel quarantine facility. The film was shot on a RED Gemini camera with a single lens, an Angenieux 45 -120mm. The camera had no batteries and had to run off a power cable that was restricted to where the cable could reach. The film was edited on Final Cut Pro and the sound design was made using Abelton Live. Stereo filed recordings from around the world help make the sound design. The backdrop to the film’s soundscape are squawking crows outside the room. These were recorded in the radioactive ghost towns of Fukushima. String instruments from Cambodia and China and a beautifully haunting cello solo recorded over ten years ago played by my good friend Adam Prescod. Loops, beats and chords taken from free taster packs are resampled, stretched and chewed out.
Killing Time
22 minute Film - (password needed)