Private Project

The Table

A mysterious table whisks a curious woman away on
a journey that blends reality and dream, and takes her
where she needs to be.

  • Corran Gourlay
    Director
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  • Corran Gourlay
    Writer
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  • Sara del Barco
    Producer
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  • Harry Hewitt
    Producer
  • Kara Duquemin
    Key Cast
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  • Thomas Oven
    Composer
  • Corran Gourlay
    Cinematographer
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  • Corran Gourlay
    Editor
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  • Corran Gourlay
    Production Designer
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  • David McBride
    Prop Master
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 29, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    250 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Lancaster University
  • Lancaster International Film Festival 2023
    Lancaster
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Poetic Lens Short Film Festival 2023
    Eugene, Oregon
    United States
    Best Animation
  • Dubrovnik Film Festival 2023
    Dubrovnik
    Croatia
    Best Experimental
  • Cinemagic Young Filmmaker 2023
    Belfast
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Corran Gourlay

Corran was born in Glasgow in 2002, grew up in Canterbury and graduated in film from Lancaster University in 2023. Though it is always changing, some of his favourite filmmakers are David Lynch, Kelly Reichardt and Ron Fricke; his filmic interests lie in absurdism, surrealism and the sublime.

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Director Statement

The idea for The Table was born from two distinct sources: the first was Jan Švankmajer’s brilliant film Byt (The Flat) from 1968, which is a brilliant example of blending stop-motion with live-action to express surrealist ideas; and the second was David Lynch’s autobiography Room to Dream, specifically the chapter detailing the process of making Eraserhead. These two pieces of media inspired me to take on a filmmaking challenge that I had not attempted before... to make a truly surreal film that brought stop-motion and live-action together as Jan Švankmajer has done throughout his career, and to build from scratch the key prop that would be the subject of the film, as David Lynch did when working on Eraserhead. What followed was my idea for a table that comes to life, which was built as I wanted, from scratch, for the film so that it could be manipulated in animation, even grow taller and shorter, to really make it seem like it is just as alive as the actor in the film.