The Motorbike Killer

So, it's film school in 13 days. Yikes. I still haven't prepared myself in any way, save buying myself a mini fridge freezer which I will store in the room I haven't paid for. So, though I have student loans, finances, a job, new people, new course, writing essays and London on my thoughts, I am also thinking alot about a film festival.

Well, I say film festival. I'm not sure it really counts. More a showcase, if you will. In this particular showcase, all the new film students will be showing everyone else a clip (maximum five minutes) of the work they've done in the past. Now, when you think that thats 5o students chosen out of 1000 applicants, you expect the standard to be pretty high! This means that I have spent literally hours searching through my old films trying to find a sequence that I could show but to no avail.

Instead, I've decided to show the opening of my new film (a film I am currently writing, directing and editing) called "The Motorbike Killer." The film itself is a bit of a tribute to grindhouse films, much in the same way Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did a couple of years ago, but with considerably less money. The film is about the ghost of a Nazi SS Officer who returns from the grave to slaughter one remaining Jew who has just moved into the neighbourhood. In order to do this final act of evil, he possesses a motorcycle and it's rider, using the machine to cause chaos and despair in it's search for the 'one that got away.' The film once again stars Samora O'Neill. I actually shot his scenes while he flew here on holiday, so there's no chance of any pick up shots. I just have to work with what I have...and what I have is alot of shots of people with their backs to the camera, pretending to be Samora.


Let's face it. The film isn't in good taste. I think when one of your lines is "This is for the holocaust, motherfucker" you know you're treading into dodgy ground. But, I find it hard to care! Im so happy that I'm actually getting back into real filmmaking, telling a story, rather than making documentaries or some abstract art piece. This is just a dumb story with funny characters and a cool villain! The only problem is that I've once again do what I always do and fail to stick to a schedule, meaning that I literally writing, shooting and editing all in the same period of time. Not the best way to get a film done effciently, but eh! What are you going to do?!

I'm looking forward to seeing the reaction of this sequence. I wonder if anyone will show anything quite like it?