TWINKLEBUM UK - WORDS
Curiously enough my background is in writing and not really film and television.
(Actually, it's not really curious, it's just something I'm explaining). I am more at home
with the written word than with a camera. Don't get me wrong - I'm the fucking nuts with
a camera - probably one of the top three this side of Finchley - but I'd rather be at home
writing than freezing my nuts off with a camera outside. The films I've made are authored enough to mean they straddle a curious zone
between film and the written word, and I will often structure my films around
a framework of prose and then fuck around with this as if revising a written document
when editing, taking into account the visual element that has now come into play.
I have also undertaken a number of "pure" writing jobs for television. For example,
I was one of the writers working on a forthcoming Angus Deayton show to be broadcast
on ITV and also contributed material to Channel 4's Raw Britannia series broadcast over
Christmas 2005. This inclination for sitting on my arse means I will be undertaking more
written work as opposed to being a little donkey walking around with a camera on its back.
(Except I've just undertaken a massive project to film the whole of North-West London and
so will have to walk around like a donkey with a camera on its back for the next six months).
I have also written a novel called Tales of the Edgware Ghost-Ship which is fucking brilliant.
To read the rejection letters for Tales of the Edgware Ghost-Ship click on the link below...
TELEVISION
Angus Deayton's Guide to Self Help Videos (ITV)
Raw Britannia (Channel 4)
The House of Memory (Channel 4)
The Edgware Walker Channel 4)
A Stoner's Guide to North-West London (Channel 4)
Tales of the Creepy Crooked... (Channel 4)
ON PAPER
Tales of the Edgware Ghost-Ship (Novel)
The Sid James Youth Club for Disaffected Intellectuals (half hour comedy script)
Aspirin Soup (an illustrated manifesto for the mentally dishevelled and morbidly fatigued)
The Fish-finger Man (scary children's book)
The Circumcision (comedy drama tragedy)
The Robinson Crusoe of NW1 (Comedy drama tragedy)
The Most Lamentable Story of Norbert Mazzer (Comedy script)
The Devil's Fuck-Soup (Children's book)
REJECTION LETTERS
REJECTION LETTERS!
Check out my rejection letters! When that envelope gets
posted through your letterbox, (like a little coffin containing your dreams posted
through your door), well you can't beat it! That's the feeling we live for right?
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