Time
Synopsis
Time is relative when grief is real. A grieving husband finds a way to revisit the moment he and his wife first met.
Film details
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 00:04:30
- Genre
- Romance, Drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- No Dialogue
Filmmaker's Note
Time was originally made for the Liverpool film night short film competition. I had a month to shoot and edit before the deadline. I work fulltime as a welder so I had to produce everything in my spare time. This wasn't so easy on a zero/tiny budget. I had only been living in Liverpool for two months so it was a good way to learn the city and discover filming locations. To my surprise I found cast and crew easily through a local filmmakers meet up group (Liverpool filmmakers hangout). Within two weeks I was ready to film, until the day before we were due to shoot the camera operator decided to drop out, luckily one of the other crew was able to jump in at short notice. Then I couldn't get permission to film in a hospital until after the shoot dates so I had to change the location to a bedroom right at the last moment. Filming was a brain twister too as I had to imagine how all the scenes would look in reverse as well as how each shot and transition would fit together backwards in the final edit. We filmed everything normally then reversed it all in post, it took some working out but it all worked out brilliantly in the end. We were even sneaky and managed to use the same actor to play the son and the young Arthur. We had to dress him in the older actors cloths and stuff them with pillows then slowly remove an item in every scene until he became the younger version at the end. we even gave him a mullet style 60s wig which we had to cut shorter in every scene, so when reversed in post it would appear to grow longer.
Credits
Director
- Joshua Cleave
Writers
- Joshua Cleave
Producers
- Joshua Cleave
About the filmmaker
Born in Gloucester, Joshua has always had a Passion for film and animation. Playing with vhs cameras and making this favourite films as a teenager. He began his working career as a car mechanic working for his dads company. He then became a fabrication welder, and started writing and directing in his spare time. He then followed his passion and moved to Leeds to study film and television production at Leeds Metropolitan University (Northern Film School) where he graduated with Ba hons in moving image production. Since then he has gone on to write and direct several award winning short films, including, The Lolly Ranger 2014, Time 2016 and the multi award winning, horror film, The Rage 2017, as well as continuing to work full time as a fabrication welder.
