Stay the Same

  • Five Months Today

    I have been filming in exactly the same place, at exactly the same time every day for exactly five months now. It feels like so much has happened in that time, but it has also gone quickly. The platform has aged significantly, the varnish has worn off and today it was covered in ice. In…

  • Every Day is Groundhog Day!

    My life feels a little bit like Groundhog day sometimes (OK, except without the immortality stuff).  The up side is that it gives you the chance to deal with things just a little bit differently, maybe just a little bit better than the day before.  But then like Bill Murray there are also the days…

  • #3 Jim Manthorpe

    So, as a fellow Knoydartian and someone who loves timelapse video, your project does of course interest me. When I saw some of the stills from your project I thought it striking how much your expression reflects the weather in each shot. When the sun shines, you look like you’re looking forward to the day…

  • Six Easy Pieces

    This film uses live stop motion, taking thousands of pictures as the actors move really slowly. It also has twins, a trapeze and a dead fish coming back to life! I first saw it last summer at the Edinburgh Film Festival.  

  • response #1 email from mum

    Just found this on the internet. Although in a way quite different from what you are doing, because they are travelling and you are staying in one place, there was something about this, especially the ‘ How To Get There’ section , that reminded me of your project. love from Mum

  • A little bit of blue sky

    I made this little film during a rare moment of escape last week. I jumped on a boat straight after filming, caught a train, and spent a few hours in Glenfinnan before surprising a friend there who was arriving from London. It was all good timing, a private boat  happened to be leaving that morning…

  • Creating a living notebook

    I have had many differing responses to this project. Strangers have told me how they feel about their life and about dying. People I have expected to laugh have shared profound insight. Often people seem to understand what I am doing better than I do. A friend recently wrote saying he imagined me tending the…

  • And in contrast . . .

    My friend Sarah sent me this when I first started the project. We agreed that it is almost in complete antithesis.

  • Clock Change

    To keep in line with the light I  have switched to filming at 8.30 am. There is something weirdly exciting about this. It marks the progression of the project, and is the first change in my morning routine in for four months. I have a close friend who worked out a while ago that if…

  • poem doodle

    When I step in front of the camera I think of myself  knitting Loopholes in space time Connecting one day to the next With an identikit moment Bending the universe into a pattern Like a key connecting in a lock Click Here I am Back again Same place, same time, same moment, same Sam