Shot between England and Joshua Tree, Nocturne is a new short film from the minds of British filmmakers Lorna Tucker & Seamus McGarvey.
Artist’s Statement by Lorna Tucker
Seamus and I met over 15 years ago, and our lives as creatives and collaborators have seen the roles of Artist/Muse shift back and forth between us over the past few years. His visual ideas inspire and inform my writing and when we work together I feel like a child again knocking on the door of my best friend and asking if they will come out to play.
Last year I was writing my book BARE and we had started dreaming up ways in which we could adapt it into a synesthetic, beautiful and immersive feature film using cinematography and his unmatched eye in visual storytelling to elevate the film in ways we hadn’t seen in this kind of movie before.
We were really inspired to take cinema back to its experimental roots, using lenses, mirrors, torches…to just explore and express emotions…So on his weekends between filming the Accountant 2 and Die My Love, and while I was filming Garbo: Leave Me Alone and writing the book/script , we would use our weekends to experiment and play.
These are three pieces from these weekend plays, that were born from us bouncing ideas off one another, looking at the emotions we wanted to express then grabbing clothes, cameras and not much else… and running around searching through the lens to capture the feeling we were after.
Then we worked with my long term collaborator and editor David Potter to bring them to life in a way that felt very much inspired by Alice in Wonderland…A woman that is running from something, or running to something, searching and longing to heal from their own (and societies) expectations of what it is to be a woman. Of the emotional fragility that we carry with us, the trauma pain and suffering…The want to scream at the top of our lungs and run away…Of the need to go into the wild to heal and find ourselves so we can come back anew.
Credits
Directed by Lorna Tucker & Seamus McGarvey
Stylist: Hermione De Paula Atelier
Colourist: Tom Aston
Sound Mixer: Matt Snowden
Editor: David Potter
Music: Alex Glynn, Jupi/ter
Special thanks to Keslow Camera
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