It is horrible to think that the summer is coming to an end already. Lockdown means that it does not feel as if I have had a holiday at all, especially as we have had no chance to go anywhere in the last six months. I have taken a few days break at my parents home just to change scenery for a few days, but it does not feel like enough of a break, and a difficult academic year looms ahead.
In positive news, the summer has been spent quite creatively. This month I sent a script to Ben Arntz for a rework, I did some musical score for Will Whiting’s film Isra, I read a draft of another feature that a young director intends to shoot next year. I also managed to shoot some footage for another short film to compliment Light Symphony. I hope to edit this in the autumn. This is all good stuff.
Elsewhere I made good headway in books and films this month.
READ: A History of Experimental Film & Video – A.L.Rees, Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell, Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson – Alistair Owen, The Truth – Neil Strauss, 101 Things I Learned in Film School – Neil Landau, The Trial – Franz Kafka, NeuroTribes – Steve Silberman
WATCHED: Eyes Wide Shut, Knives Out, Papillon, Reality Bites, Drishyam, Black Mass, My Sweet Little Village, Taxi, The Limey, Whatever Happened To Pink Floyd?, Under The Shadow, The Killing Fields, Thoroughbreds, Tenet, The Way of The Gun, Mosul, BlackKKlansman, Uncut Gems
