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Digi Shorts
Andrew McVicar
Having spent most of my early life in the Middle East I returned to the North East of England to study Literature & Film. I made a couple of films, and was encouraged by both the process and the results, so I’ve continued to develop my understanding of cinematic storytelling – honing my own style and thematic concerns as I write and shape projects.
I made a short documentary at a workshop led by Abbas Kiarostami in southern Italy and was then selected to make a film as part of the Film Council’s Digital Shorts scheme. That film was Breathe For Me, which premiered at Edinburgh and has since screened at many other international festivals including Cork and Vendome.
Andrew has been selected onto Digital Shorts EM-Media with the project In the Afternoon
In The Afternoon is about a frustrated teenage boy, and the connection made with him by an older woman who takes a sympathetic interest in that frustration.
Johnny is staying for the weekend at the farm where his friend James lives. Asked to leave James’s bedroom whilst a bluntly enacted sexual liaison takes place, Johnny has to occupy himself in the unfamiliar environment of the house. Here he comes across James’s mother, an earthy and unself-conscious woman who runs the farm. She senses his unease, and asks him for some help with her work. As the afternoon wears on, Johnny becomes more and more powerfully intrigued by the nature of the interest she shows in him.
A study in the sexual turbulence of youth, and the elemental drives that transcend age.