A surrealist 16mm short film. A company relocates their HR department to the 'Middle of Nowhere'. An intern clashes with his superiors, and some very unocooperative pigeons.
DEVELOPMENT
Pigeon-Livered was an ambitious project from the beginning. 16mm, in a field, surrealist. The sets were big, as were the costumes.
As costume designer I focused on shape theory to capture the characters. Circle for the intern, harsh triangles for the head of HR, and blocky squares for the narrator/CEO. I also tried to capture the out-of-time nature of the project. Some of the blouses are 80s, some suits are 60s, some items jarringly modern. All of this fights any attempt by the audience to categorise it, ultimately showing the frustrating bizzarity of company bureaucracy.
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RELEASE
Pigeon-Livered Premiered at the Sarah Kravitz Gallery on the 11th of April 2024.
Shown at the Festival of the Moving Image (2024)
Credits
Dominic Lewisohn - Producer
Barbara Kononova - Producer
Samuel Q Jackson - Director
Sophiya Sian - Writer
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Audrey Lindsay - The Lady
Benson Jackson - The Intern
Summer-Joules Saunders - The Girl
Cal MacAninch - The Narrator
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Max Povey - Director of Photography
Rob Brown - Production Design
Cat Sinclair - Animation Director
Will Dupere - Costume Design
Mara George - Costume Design
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Evelyn Scott - Editor
Oscar Lewisohn - Score
Samuel Prescott - Associate Producer
Ella Barker - Marketing and Promotion
Laura Martin - 1st AC
Sammy Rowkins - 2nd AC
Jai Britto - 1st AD
Tomasz Farys - 2nd AD
Lana Seo - Casting Director
Dylan Elliott - BTS and Live Action Runner
Pedro Tafur - Gaffer
Raphaelle Eranian - Spark
Sophie Kulkarni - Sound Recordist
Hope Bhargava - Boom Operator
Muge Karan - Costume Design
Alexis Rendel - Movement Coordinator
Yujin Jeong - Art Director
Sara Abbod - Animation Set Design
Aarohi Vira - Animation Assistant
Charlotte Thistlewood - Animation Assistant
Damien Laure - Sound Designer
Elsie Todd - Sound Designer
Freya Wild - Foley Artist
Henry Bell - Colourist
Uli Petri-Dawes - Video Effects
Karl Deng - Fundraising Manager
Sophie Ka Ling Lau - Production Assistant
Vincent Fong - Production Assistant
Saul Lotzof - UCL Film Society President