An experiment in film and time Stay the Same is a short film project by Sam Firth funded with development funds from the UK Film Council (now the BFI), Creative Scotland and ‘in kind’ support from the Scottish Documentary Institute.
Sam filmed herself every day on the shore of a sea loch at exactly the same time with camera locked off in exactly the same place. The tides, the light and the seasons changed and Sam did too.
The film is about our relationship with time and mortality. It Sam’s attempt to depict hereself standing still while time flows around her. The film also documents the emotional consequences of it’s own process as Sam goes through a year of not being able to leave Knoydart the most innaccesable peninsular on mainland Britian for more than a day. It is about the pace of modern life and our desire to move increasingly faster whilst experiencing everything fully and it is the third in a series of films exploring different forms of autobiographical film making following Sam’s first two films I.D. and The Worm Inside.
The project includes this website and blog which are part of the project. The intention is to share the experience of making the film as well as related work and different responses to the project. It is a virtual working notebook for the project and forum for discussion.
Sam started filming on 21st June 2011 and will finish in June this year. She will then edit sixty hours of footage into a short film between ten and twenty minutes long.
If you have been doing a similar project or taking pictures of the same thing over a period time that you would like to share then please email Sam at staythesame@tinysparkproductions.com.
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Dear Sam,
I hope you don’t mind me contacting you directly but I heard an interview with you on Radio 4 this evening regarding ‘Stay the Same’ and I wanted to contact you immediately.
I am music teacher from London and a few years ago I started a small production company writing music for film and television. After some success, the company took an interesting turn and I found myself involving my school students in the composition process. Soon they began writing a lot of the music, with me guiding them through the process and well as teaching them how to develop their ideas. This year we have completed several new and exciting projects for various arts organisations and independent films.
I am currently applying for funding in order to enable these young people to concentrate on bigger projects and help them work with some more advanced equipment and experienced musicians. The students already have some exciting collaborations happening with the National Orchestra for All, Music First and Teach First and we hope to continue this journey with more organisations in the future.
It would be an honour if you would consider us to work on this project with you. I hope that an experimental film and have an experimental sound track! If you would like to view some of our work then please visit:
http://white-sound.com/#/visuals/4553875568
If you would like to contact me then please fire me an email at info@white-sound.com.
Kindest regards,
Adam Scourfield
Comment by Adam Scourfield 6 February 2012 @ 9:34 pm