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Christine Scherwood
Filmmaking at the
London Film School
explore and learn and find herself in more chaos, but
Lashes is my graduation film from London Film
in this one day she learns a little bit more.
School. I had been working on another script when I
came across the short story “Feathers and Cigarettes”
It was very important for me to portray Ashley as who
by Andrew Lloyd-Jones, which won an award with
she is. To capture her raw feelings. The moments
Fish Publishing, and knew instantly I had to adapt it,
when she refrains f rom saying anything to the times
and share this cinematically. The protagonist, whom
that she lashes out. Too often women are not
I named Ashley was so raw, disturbed and in a place
represented authentically. We come with scars, and
and time in her life where she is figuring out who she
bruises. Some visible, some not. Each one represents
is. Her journey has her transforming from trying to
a journey, a story, and discoveries. Real raw emotions;
fit in to figuring out that she needs to walk away from
regardless of gender, or genre is where I find the truly
all that nonsense and be herself. I loved that she
interesting stories to be.
wasn't a good girl caught up in something bad. To
me, that’s not real. Ashley is a real girl. “In my films I touch the subject of body and
She’s flawed. She has a foul mouth, an motion embedded in a determinate context. I
Based on the short
attitude problem, and until she stands am interested in mutual dependency and
interactions between sound, body and nature.
story “Feathers and
up for her self can sometimes be a
Variation on Black is an attempt to explore
Cigarettes”
by
pushover. That is when she’s not doing an ideal synergy of a man and an instrument.”
Andrew Lloyd-Jones,
the pushing herself.
Lashes is an arousing cine-
matic experience, one that deserves repeated and
Exploring Ashley in her own world, in her own life, in
in-depth viewings. Christine Sherwood's talent as
this one-day, where she has come to a realisation that
director shows itself in the balance the act of
the road she was on, was a false one for her. Even if
narration: she hares with Yorgos Lanthimos the desire
you’re a young, directionless, foul mouthed kid,
to look at the world in new ways following a close
figuring out who you are is what everyone is trying
examination of reality, reminding us of Maya Deren's
to figure out. Sometimes well past their teens, which
words "It is not the way anything is at a given
is why I think everyone can relate to Ashley. Her
moment that is important in film, it's what is is doing,
journey goes from being messed over to emerging
how it's becoming". We are pleased to present
from the chaos with a better understanding of who
Christine Sherwood for this year's CinéWomen
she was. That's not to say she won't continue to