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TOM SKIPP – FILM WORKS – DOWNLOADING

CAST AND CREW
Drake ...Olivier Company.
Diana...Adriana Hernández.
Jason...Lionel Fernández-Alba del Pino.
Sophie Higgins...Beatrice Lorenzetti.
Nigel...Dominic Graville.
Man in Art Gallery...Antonio Balich.
Woman in Video...Layla Ishi-Kawa.
Makeup...Ana Ramírez.
Photography...Gonzalo de la Serna.
Direction and screenplay...Tom Skipp.
Sound and editing...Tom Skipp
and My Oscillating Identity.

MUSIC
Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiians "Hawaiian Cowboy".
Jenks "Tex" Carman "Hillbilly Hula".
Kalama's Quartet "Heeia".
Kanui & Lula "Tomi Tomi", "Oua Oua".
Dany Stewart "Les Femmes D'Amerique".
Louis Armstrong with Sam Kaki & The Polynesians "On A Coconut Island".

SCREENINGS
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Drake, a forensic detective, investigates the disappearance of Jason, a twelve year-old boy. Following traces left on the boy's computer, he embarks upon an unexpected journey to the places of the mind. 

With no news about Jason's whereabouts for 36 hours, Drake searches for clues in a race against time. In short breaks from work, Drake watches people going in and out of the underground entrance from his window. He is surprised to discover that the same people who go down come back up moments later. Drake decides to go down into the underground to investigate. At the bottom, there is no one to be seen, but lights are on. He suddenly feels dizzy and sick and retreats back up the stairs, two steps at a time.

Jason's only link to the outside world is through his music and his headphones. His unusual music –Hawaiian songs from the 1920's– and his appearance in a video installation on show at an art gallery, lead Drake's investigation down unexpected avenues in pursuit of an elusive goal: direct human contact.

PHOTO GALLERY

ABOUT THE FILM

Olivier Company, the actor who plays Drake, flew in from Switzerland to start rehearsals with the rest of the cast. The film was shot in three days on location in Madrid. Film locations included The Elba Benítez Art Gallery, a flat in Hortaleza, the Madrid underground and a view of the Tribunal station exit. For greater realism, sound was recorded direct. The film was edited and post-produced at My Oscillating Identity. The final format is DVD.

TRAILER

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ABOUT THE TEXT

Tom Skipp wrote this original screenplay. It includes an unusual plot, loosely based on the Orpheus myth, in which reality is mixed with fantasy and the whole thing is a kind metaphor of a child's mind lost in the contemporary world of indirect communication. City dwellers are anonymous entities rarely engaging in direct contact. More often than not communication is carried out and shaped by means of machines, such as computers, screens, telephones. The machinery of communication populates this story. By writing striking characters and locations, a mixture of actors and passersby, the film has a spontaneous, realist feel while actually exploring the darkest recesses of the imagination.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

"Downloading", is filmed in a tough, realistic, immediate and low-budget style. In an almost documentary fashion it portrays the characters as real, contemporary individuals and faithfully depicts urban life. However, from out of this realism emerges a story exploring the surrealistic places of the mind and the value we attach to real objects and machines in our relationships (objects which, in an urban context, may seem more real than their users)

SHORT BIOGRAPHIES

(Director) Tom Skipp, England, went to the Arts Educational School in the Barbican, London, and continued his theatre studies at Brooklands College, Weybridge. He graduated in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. He toured Europe as a performer and director of plays by Shakespeare, Wedekind, Barnes, etc. Since 1990, he has lived and worked in Spain. In 1996 he organised an exhibition about the Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor in Madrid (Fundación Telefonica) and in Barcelona (Fundación Caixa de Catalunya). In 2005, he co-curated the Real Spanish Art exhibition at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art.

(Director of Photography) Gonzalo de la Serna, España, hijo de diplomático, vive su infancia entre Ginebra y Nueva York. Cursa estudios en francés, inglés y, desde su llegada a Madrid en 1965, en español. Desde 1980 se dedica a la fotografía especializada en pintura, antigüedades y retratos; participa en múltiples proyectos editoriales; hace incursiones en la fotografía publicitaria y proyectos cinematográficos.

(Drake) Olivier Company.
(Diana) Adriana Hernández.

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