Stay in a Friendly Country

Formally eclectic but heartfelt tribute to the holiday home movie heritage of low gauge formats.

Shot over 3 holidays, and including a dream I had about rescuing a cat from Norway, Stay … is my attempt to pay homage to 8mm’s home movie heritage. It’s pre-digital, so originally cut and shown as sticky tape spliced celluloid. Though rough hewn it’s a film that I still maintain a great fondness for.

p.s. The Wales section is shot on Single 8.

“This short proves that vacation movies can be made entertaining if one just takes the time to edit them. Indeed I found this Super-8 short about the director’s trip across Europe to be rather inspiring, demonstrating how anyone with a little imagination and a papier mache cat can be a filmmaker instead of just a camera operator.”

–hybridmagazine.com