THE BOMB WITH A MAN IN HIS SHOE

14 MIN 16MM B+W

2005

Almost a commercial – for my friend Paul Harnden, shoemaker. Initially supposed to be a few minutes long, the film began as a very loose kind of documentary, where I would turn up with my bolex and lights once a week over a two-month period, filming the various stages of making 400 pairs of shoes. All the superimpositions were done in-camera on out-of-date stock, hand-processed as I went along. As the filming progressed I felt we needed to get outside, to see what would happen on a few walks in the great outdoors.