Experiencing Interruptions?

GILT

Searching for a legendary hoard of gold coins, a man is goaded to unearth the darkness buried within.

  • Jules Stevens
    Director
    If It Looks Like Love, The Meal
  • Jules Stevens
    Writer
    If It Looks Like Love, The Meal
  • Edward Hemming
    Producer
    The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffreys, The Impostors
  • Tim Bentinck
    Key Cast
    The Archers, Gnomeo and Juliet, The Gathering Storm
  • Sydney Kean
    Key Cast
    Lifeforce
  • Christopher Hughes
    Key Cast
    The Talented Mr Ripley (stage), Eastenders, Doctors
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    drama, thriller
  • Runtime:
    22 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Jules Stevens
Distribution Information
  • Jules Stevens
    Country: United Kingdom
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Jules Stevens

Julian has completed four shorts that have screened at international film festivals (including Slamdance, Rome, East End, and London Short film festival), and made seven short documentaries for Current TV, one of which was awarded Best Doc. He has worked as a cameraman/DOP for Channel 4 and the BBC.

He studied film and literature at degree level, was briefly a news reporter at a newspaper, before returning to filmmaking. He studied script development at the National Film and Television School, where he met his producing partner Edward Hemming.

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Director Statement

With GILT we set out to create a filmic space from the landscape that would reflect Paige's internal phycological state. A supernatural menace is hinted at, but never made explicit. We wanted to embrace the uncanny, the dreamy, and a sense of foreboding.

I was interesting in exploring shifting perspectives, wrong footing the viewer with reveals, hidden pasts, and secret bestial inner natures.

Audiences will see nods to Nick Roeg in the time jumps, and oblique story-telling, and early Polanski in the intense visualisations of disjointed inner worlds, along with other stylised, psychological, surreal films of the 1970s.

Anna Bogacz atmospheric photography makes use of soft, rich images and primary colours, and Chris Kemsley's haunting, off-key score contributes to this distinctive, immersive world.

GILT features a characterful, menacing performance from Tim Bentinck (David Archer in Radio 4s' The Archers, and numerous TV and film appearances), and a blistering, emotional intensity from new-comer Christopher Hughes.