OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sunderland Short Film Festival 2022
BEST OF THE FEST '22 - Sunderland Shorts
3 mins 30, 2021
A surreptitiously filmed conversation between my Dad and my Nana about the age-old British tradition of breaking into royal residences. The conversation is overlaid with Super 8 footage shot by my Grandad in the 1960s and scanned by me after my grandparent's deaths, shots I filmed on an iPhone while retracing the steps of their family visit to London, and a found 16mm reel with views of the city centre and Buckingham Palace in the '30s. The contrasting eras of film, as well as relatively recent footage of my family (one of whom is no longer with us), spliced with shots of their much younger selves turn the piece into a short meditation on expectant youth, and the locked gates that many of us will meet as we quickly age.
Footage:
Garry Sykes/Kenneth Sykes/Found
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