Essex Spacebin
Synopsis
“This film will be a Cult Classic” Tim Noakes- Edior, Dazed and Confused
“The craziest thing I’ve ever worked on.” Ceephax Acid Crew – Dance Music Producer
In this brand new subgenre of surreal British comedy filmmaking, Lorraine Willy of Planet Earth believes there's an ancient lost portal built by Amen Rah somewhere in deep Essex that leads to Sirius. As she explores, time, space and greasy chicken wings with her friends and family, will she be proven wrong by those who think they hold the secrets to her madness or will she be vindicated in her unstoppable quest for the truth?
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 78 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
-
David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Producer
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Executive Producer
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Editor
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Screenwriter
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Director of Photography
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Production Designer
- David Hollinshead, Philip Thompson
- Sound
- David Hollinshead, Karl Jenkins
- Composer
- Andy Jenkinson (aka Ceephax Acid Crew)
- Principal cast
- Lorraine Malby, Phil Thompson, David Hollinshead, Hogan Cooper, Iain Stuart Robertson, Joerg Stadler, Caryl Griffith, Gillian Nunns, Jonny Jenks
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Page updates
This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.
See also
You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.
Becoming Capa
Director: Charlotte Colbert
Year: 2027
BECOMING CAPA is a tale of love, audacity and defiance set against the backdrop of a world in political turmoil. Two tenacious young European refugees fall madly in love and defy the fractured world around them by creating the character of enigmatic American photographer Robert Capa, together shooting some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th Century.
Venice "Sadness rises in me like the sea" WINTER LIGHT
Director: Nina Danino
Year: 2026
“You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But sadness in me rises like the sea" The Eyes of Beauty, Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil In Greenwich Park, London two lovers stroll and talk about love, their relationship and the making of a film in Venice. The Venice film is shot on 16mm. Venice at dawn is empty and a protagonist sits at the empty San Marco Piazza, is seen walking in a detached manner from the grand sights and facades and interiors of Palazzos into the backstreets. In gilded interiors and painted ceilings, as the winter afternoon light weakens in a soporific atmosphere, she lays in dark interiors with frescoes of Antiquity. Like the Risen, at twilight she walks the alleyways and into the Like the Risen, at twilight she walks the alleyways and into the dark to meet the Devil at dawn. Featuring the actor Pietro Fanelli – the Devil makes a fleeting but impactful appearance, the protagonist offers herself to his gaze and touch. The film follows a path via the remnants of Romanticism and Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil in search of beauty, opulence, exotic pleasure and lovers, exemplified by Venice.
Passing
Director: Adolf El Assal
Year: 2026
An engineer, secretly living in her car while driving for a rideshare app in Berlin, picks up the man whose firm rejected her credentials seven years earlier. Now she must decide how much of her disappearance was done to her, and how much she chose, before she loses her daughter to the same silence.