Neil Mcenery West watch film

Directors Biography
My films revolve largely around fractured memories, loss and internalised emotional states. There’s a lot of focus on structural experimentation and the use of images and sound to express emotional and psychological states. Sometimes non-linear and abstract in form, they are designed to create a visual-sound experience rather than a straightforward narrative.

My influences are predominantly Avant Garde, European and American independent cinema. In particular the work of filmmakers David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni and Maya Deren.

Undertow, a 26-minute short experimental film that explores the theme of loss, is my latest project. The film explores themes featured throughout my work, but is more ambitious in both scale and design.

Professionally my background lies mainly in television and non-fiction as a director and/or cameraman. However, throughout my career I’ve also continued to develop and produce independent fiction working collaboratively with other artists.

Synopsis
A man haunted by visions of a woman, a man who does not speak, and a woman desperate to forget occupy two different versions of the same city.

Undertow explores two journeys. One set in a perpetual nightmare that uses the characterisation and the visual/sound design to create a psychological landscape, at once familiar and yet uncanny.

Whilst the other strand of the story explores a comparable emotional journey but is grounded in reality.

As the two worlds begin to collide, the lines between what is real and what is not, what is remembered and what is only imagined, become increasingly blurred.