Stay the Same

  • Tim MacMillan experiments in film and time

    Moving pictures have been used to explore our perceptions of time since their invention. When Tim MacMillan was at art school at Bath Academy in the 1980’s he experimented using multiple cameras to create different viewpoints of the same space. When these multiple viewpoints are spliced in to one film it feels like time has…

  • The psychology of time perception

    There is a developing psychology of time perception, which suggests our relationship to time affects how happy we are. Below is a fantastic animated illustration of Professor Philip Zimbardo’s theories on this. I love that where you live in relation to the equator affects your perception of time.  You can also hear more about Robert…

  • Cesar Kuriyama – One second every day

    Cesar Kuriyama is making a film using one second of film from each day of his life from. He started on his 30th birthday which, coincidentally, was the same week I started filming Stay the Same.  His is a fascinating and incredibly ambitious project also about time, memory and the desire to capture all of…

  • #24 Simon Lynch who I haven’t seen in ten years

    Simon saw this project in the papers and got in touch through facebook last month. I went to university with Simon. We also worked together as interns in the Labour party media unit in ’97  helping make short films about how great the new Labour government was going to be (we were young!). As a…

  • A small escape at spring equinox

    So here I am. I’ve been filming every day for nine months now. Less than one hundred days of filming left to go! This means I have gone outside and stood on my platform whatever the weather over two hundred sixty fifty times. So far I seem to have retained my sense of humour if…

  • Mallaig Children’s Film Project

    I thought I’d share the results of the other work I’ve been doing over the last couple months with Mallaig Primary School taking a class of seventeen children aged 8 to 11 taking through the entire film making process.  I was very lucky that a private boat service agreed to change the timetable to allow…

  • The Story of Self

    I read this article in the guardian by Charles Fernyhough which connets with a lot the research I have been doing recently in to memory and self, as our perceptions of time and narrative are very much related to memory. I’m really looking forward to reading his book. Our ability to remember forms the basis…

  • First sunshine in four months!

    Yesterday for the first time in four months the sun was high enough above the mountains for it to be shining on me while I was filming at 8.30am. The light is changing really quickly now and waking up believing I have slept through both alarms only to find it is actually only 7.30am has…

  • #22 Small cat arrives in post

    Someone in Singapore sent me a very small handcarved wooden cat in the post with a note describing it as a “woody pal” to brighten my day, which it did immensly. It’s not strictly a response to the film but was such a nice thing to receive I thought I would share it here. As…

  • The Entire History of You

    A while ago someone suggested I watch Charlie Brookers drama Black Mirror in response to this film. There is no TV reception here and limited broadband but it looks great. I’m particularly interested in The Entire History of You in which everyone has an implant that records everything they see and hear so that they…