Meeting Halfway

A collaborative 16mm double channel film shot on location at the geographical halfway point between the two small towns where the filmmakers were born (Bergman in Burnley, Lancs, and Byrne in Maidstone, Kent). The universe, via Google maps, designated this halfway point to be Warwick, a Medieval market town in the West Midlands.

Shot on grainy black and white reversal filmstock, the film plays with ideas about being in the middle, and dabbling there for a while. In-between here and there, young and old, male and female, gay and straight, intellectual and daft, neither one nor t’other...

Interrupting one another and finishing each other's sentences, Bergman and Byrne have created an intimate expanded cinema experience that hopes to meet the audience halfway, through flickering beams, whirr and hum, two reels turning in the dark.

The soundtrack has been specially created in another in-between place (recorded in an underground crypt in Rome) by Gatestudio.Eu, with sound design by Andrea Leoni.