The Film We Didn't Make
Steven Eastwood.16mm /Mini DV. 16.30min + 10 min commentary. 2006
A woman is delivered by car to a remote coastal location, a stranded fictional character equipped with suitable props. Not only is she reluctant to be in this place, she is also reluctant to be a character in a film. Is she the same woman from Of Camera, the performer Sharon Smith who played that character, or someone else? On a beach she encounters two players from the actual, Roy White and Arrun Denman from The Film. The three characters from previous films mix like oil and water, marionettes in a school play on a hiding to nowhere, making their way to the actual through lumpy gravy. Events finally settle on a hillside at sunset in what appears to be the place of a natural exchange. But inside the film is another film - The Film We Didn't Make. Which parts of this film are life and which parts are not? What is a film if it is not a life?