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I Lost Myself (Short)

This film explores the experience of feeling 'lost', both physically mentally, due to COVID-19 and quarantine. It also delves into that rusty, awkward and less fluid sensation when attempting to dance/move/improvise at recent times due to being home-bound for so long.

  • Izzy Catterall
    Director
    An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language
  • Izzy Catterall
    Writer
    An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language
  • Izzy Catterall
    Producer
    An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • 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:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Izzy Catterall

I am a recently graduated freelance contemporary dancer from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.

I have recently become very invested in filming and video editing. I am very interested in exploring dance film, and trying to promote things I feel strongly about through the art form of movement and cinematography.

My main aim is to provide choreography and film that creates a sincere and honest connection between the viewers and what they are watching.

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Director Statement

My main vision for this film was to show a very personal experience of how this lock down period has affected my mind and body (hence why it is me dancing in the footage and not me filming and directing someone else).

Due to COVID-19 and not being able to finish my dance degree in the studio, I have found that my physicality, motivation and creativity has gone astray and become 'lost'. Not only this, but my hopes and aspirations for my dance career have become vague and 'lost' too, because everything in the art sector is so up-in-the-air at the moment.

This film explores different routes that I have taken on walks that I have gone on throughout lock down to pass the time. My movement reflects a sense of loneliness, as well as this sensation of feeling lost in my creativity, mentality, physicality, and my future.

The beautiful music is called 'La complainte du soleil' by Laura Cahen, who has seen my film and is happy with the outcome as well as giving me permission to enter this film into festivals. I chose this music not only because I originally heard it in an animated film called 'I Lost My Body', which was a film about loosing part of yourself which I felt linked with the vision of my film. But also because the music simply touched me in a sincere and honest way - it just felt pure and raw which seemed to compliment my movement well.