The Creative Genius of Canterbury

Chair - a short film by Alaric King from The Bakery on Vimeo.



The link above is for a student film which I had the extreme pleasure of contributing towards with a small bit of piano music for the introduction. It gave a little glimpse into the vision, effort and skill needed to make your own film. It's an immense undertaking! But anyway, it's now finished and here for all to see in all its lo-fi glory.

It's a beautiful thing to slowly discover the awesomely creative and talented people you never knew were there. I must have driven down St Peter's Place thousands of times, never knowing that in one of the houses lives a bunch of students who make all kinds of awesomely creative films and publish them collectively through their homely website, 'The Bakery'. There's some great stuff, especially an awesome parody of the TV uni advertisement to promote UKC. Will definitely have to post that up.

In the meantime, this is Alaric King's 'The Chair', lovingly rendering the lifestory of an inanimate object: a wooden chair. Beautiful.

To get an idea of what goes into an 8 minute film, the whole process has been documented in a blog:
http://www.chairfilm.co.uk/blog/

Blog blog blog, what is it about the word blog? Alternatively bog, log, glob, gob. It has to be one of the ugliest recent additions to the english language. Surely it's not a word, just the noise we make in an effort to expel a rogue fly which has just entered your mouth on a country walk.