Stay the Same

  • Occidentally Singing Outloud

    Another little film made with my mobile phone attempting to catch a moment on the beach at sunset. I kind of forgot I was filming and started to sing out loud to the music on my headphones so I made it part of the film.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Is this an endurance test?

    I am a third of the way through the project and the challenges of this project are now far more apparent even if the nature of the final film isn’t! My friend Jamie who is an avid mountaineer sent me a link to the film below which he saw at the last Mountain Film Festival.…

  • Tape number 13

    I don’t like to think of myself as a superstitious person. Today I started tape number 13. I thought about not having a tape 13 for the film, but that would be being superstitious. For the first time in the project I couldn’t film because the rain was coming so hard at the camera and…

  • Things to be thankful for

    There is an irony in moving to a really remote place for a quieter pace of life only to find you just have to do more travelling, which was what had happened by the time I started this project. I was exhausted by it. I also felt I had no real idea of whether this…