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Live Before You Die
by Tom Lloyd on Aug 20, 2008
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Shortlisted for ThinkSync Film competition 2008
Runner up Keswick Film Festival 2009
Cannes Short Film Corner 2009
Music Husky Rescue, Blueberry Tree Part III.
Courtesy Catskills Records

A modern day dreamtime.
The freedom of a life on the road with horses in an English Summer.

Produced and Directed by Tom Lloyd

Shot entirely on clockwork super 8mm camera
6 mins

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pew36's picture

whats up with the field ordering on that vid?

Tom Lloyd's picture

I uploaded a slight re-edit last week.looks like I might hav forgotten to de-interlace it.

matei-alexandru mocanu's picture

bdsfr

harrisj2k's picture

I love 8mm film. what was the camera you used and which stock. its got such an amazing look and no amount of post can achieve this feel digitally

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Jonathan Harris

Tom Lloyd's picture

Hi Jonathan,
so glad you like the feel.
It was shot on a hand cranked russian clockwork camera, can't read Russian so not sure the make, but nothing special.
The stock was mostly Kodachrome 40 but there was the odd roll of Fuji when that was all I could get.
Tom

matei-alexandru mocanu's picture

ok, so this is half documentary, half cinematic essay, or so i gather.
i also took part in this competition, using the same track, but whilst in your case it ran throughout the film, it just appeared briefly on the end credit sequences in mine.

i think the way you document this far from the madding crowd community does more justice to the song, than did my short. my only problem would be that i'd thought you were only supposed to use the song in some parts of the film and not throughout, but it doesn't matter too much. it's a solid piece of film-making nonetheless.
good job.

'Come around, watch a movie with the sound down
And get woozy'

Tom Lloyd's picture

The husky rescue track was the only one that worked with the footage so that was the natural choice.
I tried different edits and was conscious of it not being a music video in the usual sense, (voice over was added last), and in the end just let the music play on!
Tom

freyzin's picture

top top top!! every time im feeling a little blue i watch this :) what a wonderfull piece of art/documentation that truely inspires,its timeless..

mari's picture

brilliant!!

bloody well love it!!

well done!!

stevensole1981's picture

Amazing film... a joy to watch from start to finish especially in the cold throws of spring...
cant wait to see what other magic you can capture with that old 8mm camera.

medea's picture

Wonderful film, very moving, really captures the spirit of the time... and what times they were! thankyou x
marire sani

Majed98's picture

nice

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bibi's picture

This film is all that is great about the lost art of true film making. It would be nice to have a film industry in Dubai so that we can make quality films like this. Just imagine - the Dubai Film Festival. I good idea for a screenplay would be the daily workings of one of the escort agencies in Dubai and what the Dubai escorts get up to with their clients.

peabody's picture

Excellent. I kept expecting to see Jimi Hendrix hanging around... %^)

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I agree with what you have to say..... Russian Brides

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