Private Project

Room To Roam

Anything is possible. A door opens to reveal a shabby room in a seedy hotel ("The Brighton Rock"), somewhere in the South of England – presenting a series of strange tales. A lover aiming to regain his mistress, a lonely man celebrating life, a woman exacting a chilling revenge, an author in search of the perfect pitch, a married couple, an old-fashioned fiancé, a cheese lover, a grim reaper, a hillbilly band, a time traveller. Each story is different because each customer is different. There are twists and mixed genres, ranging from film noir through to horror, comedy, and science fiction – each narrative requiring a specific treatment through the entire spectrum from black to really colourful.

  • Oliver Clark
    Director
  • Saffron Clark
    Writer
  • Oliver Clark
    Writer
  • Oliver Clark
    Producer
  • Saffron Clark
    Producer
  • Saffron Clark
    Key Cast
  • Karin Reilly
    Key Cast
  • Markus Hüsgen
    Director of Photography
  • Oliver Clark
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 22 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Europäisches Filmfestival Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Germany
    November 28, 2022
    World Premiere / Preview
    Official Selection
  • Florence Film Awards
    Florence
    Italy
    November 5, 2023
    Award Winner
  • Munich New Wave Short Film Festival
    Munich
    Germany
    November 3, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Brighton Rocks International Film Festival
    Brighton
    United Kingdom
    June 20, 2023
    Honorable Mention
  • Europa Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    March 31, 2024
    Finalist
  • Serbest International Film Festival
    Kishinev
    Moldova, Republic of
    September 5, 2023
    Semi Finalist
Distribution Information
  • Parasol Productions
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Oliver Clark

Oliver Clark is of Anglo-German descent and lives in Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. He studied English, American, Italian literature, as well as journalism and communication science, at the Universities of Goettingen and Florence. Combining his studies with the fields of film and television he wrote his Master's thesis on „Forms of cinematic and literary narration in the works of Robert Altman and Raymond Carver“.
A freelance filmmaker and voice artist since 1996, he also worked as author, film reviewer, teacher, book seller, film projectionist. In 1995 he co-founded the Goettingen Low Budget Filmfestival. In 1998 he established “SurfCut film&video”, the company successfully produced various music videos, corporate videos and commercials over the following 17 years. In 2011, he co-founded “Harderfilm”, a company specialized in the production of feature films, the feature length crime drama “Harder and the Girl” was produced in 2012/2013, the science fiction short “Whitecollar Upgrade” was produced in 2017-2021. In 2015, he co-founded “The Award Winning Clark Brothers”, a film and television creative production company, with writer and director Saffron Clark. In 2016, at Dublin Web Fest, they won the Best Original Writing Award. In 2017 they broadcast the webseries “The Award Winning Clark Brothers' Really Really Really Good Show”.
In 2019 Oliver co-founded “Parasol Productions”, the international artist-filmmaker-collective, with British writer/director Saffron Clark, Irish artist/musician/poet Carl Plover, German filmmaker/cameraman Markus Hüsgen. Parasols projects include the webseries’ “Two Corpses With Hard Ons” and “Staying In”, as well as TV series “Harder”, a brutally funny police drama (in pre-production), and “Room To Roam”, a slice-of hotel-life portmanteau feature film (preview-premiered at “43. European Film Festival Goettingen”).

Selected Filmography:
1994 Fading Dawn (mid length feature film)
1996 Thomas Stearns Eliot: Eyes That Last I Saw In Tears (experimental poetry video)
2000 Sugareen: Black And Blue (music video for Enola Music)
2002 Aldo Palazzeschi: Mar Grigio (experimental poetry video)
2004 Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (experimental poetry video)
2007 Camera: Manfred Krueger (documentary portrait video)
2007 William Blake: To Summer (experimental poetry video)
2008 MK Bio – Tailor-made Immuno Assays (corporate video for MK Bio Shanghai)
2009 Projekt Pandora: Kleiner Wicht (music video for Sequential Media)
2011 Global City: International Gardens (documentary)
2013 Harder and the Girl (feature film with Harderfilm)
2013 Heartburn Billy and his Burning Harz: Schorsch Clooney (music video)
2015 City of Goettingen (corporate video for Goettingen Tourism and Nortia)
2016 Uwe Kolkmeyer und das Bohonga Spezial Ensemble: Spuren der Nacht (music video)
2017 The Award Winning Clark Brothers' Really Really Really Good Show (webseries)
2019 Heartburn Billy and his Burning Harz: Hillebilly-Fieber (music video)
2020 Two Corpses With Hard Ons (webseries with Parasol)
2020 Staying In (webseries with Parasol)
2021 Heartburn Billy and his Burning Harz: Harzer Mondlicht (music video)
2021 Heartburn Billy and his Burning Harz: Unentwegt auf dem Weg (music video)
2021 Whitecollar Upgrade (science fiction short with Harderfilm)
2023 Room To Roam (portmanteau feature film with Parasol)

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Director Statement

Written, developed, produced, and filmed within three weeks, ROOM TO ROAM is the first presentation of Parasol Productions, an international creative collective set in Germany, England and Ireland, working collaboratively to develop independent projects across a variety of genres.