The Aberrant Reader
Robert DeeAn uncanny home for speculations on filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy and culture.
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Strangled Celluloid
I’m obsessed with film and filmmaking but sometimes there’s an expectation that film has to be a certain thing. It needs a Sid Field story arc, a cat needs to be saved, it has to be shot on an Arri, and last 90 minutes (or 160 these days)....
And Then There Were None...
I am a child of the 70s, and I’m grateful that I am. My interest in horror and the macabre started early, and that era had a lot to do with it. Somewhere between the ages of eight and ten, I encountered a series of disturbing pop-cultural a...
Horror Short BTS
As I come up to shooting the last couple of days on my first feature, Genesis, I’ve taken a look back at a BTS film I put together for my first “proper” short, The Devil’s Harvest. This short I created as part of my Masters at Raindance, a...
From Shorts to Feature #3
Genesis in production
By the time I returned properly to Genesis, I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted it to be.
All the time I was working on Foreclosure, I was also working on prep for the Genesis script. For me, that meant resear...
From Shorts to Feature #2
To help get short films made, I set up a group in Brighton called Octopus Films.
(Shooting Bees in 2017)
Over two or three years, we made about thirty shorts of different sizes and levels of complexity. I loved it. It helped enormously in...
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Practicing filmmaker and writer focusing on filmmaking and weird shit. I'm particularly interested in the psychological application of film techniques to convey meaning and feeling through visual subtext, image systems and cinematic language.
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