Mash Up (Jesse Lawrence, UK, 2006)
Runtime: 10 min
Synopsis:
On a run down council estate, Robert visits his mentally disturbed friend and recounts the details of a vicious street attack, only to discover that his own perception of reality has been turned upside down.
Director's Notes
Before I wrote Mash Up I knew that I wanted to base it on one of the many fantastic but true urban stories that I’d either heard of or experienced myself. These true stories included crazy ones from the 1970’s when my very young parents lived in a very violent and racially intolerant Ladbroke Grove, to ones connected to my younger brother, Rene and his stoned circle of 'expelled from school' friends. In the end I settled with Rene’s generation - a generation where both the drugs and violence seemed more potent than in my own.
The two main narratives of Mash Up - Robert visiting his mentally ill friend and Robert getting high and only then realising he’s been stabbed are based on two separate stories that I was immediately attached to. I simply found a way to link the two together and this formed the foundation of Mash Up.
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Director: Jesse Lawrence |
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