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Timandra Harkness
Timandra studied Film and Drama Studies with Art at Bulmershe College (Reading University), a course that covered both video directing and working with Super 8mm. Whilst working in stage management, lighting design and prop making for the theatre, Timandra also worked on NFTS student films as a continuity supervisor, 1st AD and Art Department Assistant.
Timandra then wrote and directed Maneater, set in a comic world where eating cakes really can make your problems disappear. The finished film went on to screen at festivals at Riverside Studios (London) and Watershed Cinema (Bristol). Returning to theatre, Timandra co-devised and co-directed a visual theatre piece, The Seven Pillows of Wisdom that toured the UK and BAC.
Timandra trained in trapeze and clowning but then ran away from the circus to become a stand up comedian, writing and performing her own material. In the Comedy Research Project (with Dr. Helen Pilcher), Timandra tries to prove the hypothesis that science can be funny.
Timandra has been writing with Linda Cotterill since the 20th Century. Their comedy play, No Future in Eternity, played at the Edinburgh Fringe and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001 and 2003. As well as TV scripts they have a completed feature film script, Space for Dreaming, funded by Screen South and the UK Film Council.
Timandra has been selected onto the digital shorts scheme by Screen South with her project The Fog Museum.
The Fog Museum is a modern fairytale, more curious than dark, it is a film gris.
Emily invites Max into the Fog Museum. He’s resistant to her, the strange exhibits and far-fetched stories of collecting fog from around the world. She claims it absorbs molecules of all the people and things that were within it. But he ventures deeper in, to sinister displays about people lost in fog, in a room where thickening mist obscures all sense of space and direction. The acoustic changes, sounds and shadows of a park surround them. Max can’t escape. He listens to Emily’s story of her fiancé Robert who disappeared one foggy day. Now it’s clear why Max was drawn to and repelled by the Fog Museum. Robert - his brother - spent his life searching for his lost love in foggy places. He vanished in a sea fog off Newfoundland. Emily understands why she loves to sit in Newfoundland fog. She takes Max into it, and they disappear to the sounds of the sea.
Timandra can be contacted via email at mail@timandraharkness.com
www.timandraharkness.com