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If not directed here from YouTube you can view the film HERE.
ONE THICK SECOND is a late 90's counter-culture 16mm low-budget feature film made in Bristol. Casting non-actors and featuring locations and faces of the South-West, the film also includes a live performance by American garage punk band The New Bomb Turks. One Thick Second premiered and ran at the Cube Cinema, Bristol in Jan 2000.
"We follow the story of Scott, an enigmatic anti-hero, who after tumbling inexplicably through a plate glass window, spends the rest of the film on the run, refusing to explain to anyone around him the true nature of his injuries. In a heartfelt tale of urban anxiety, disenchantment and redemption Scott finds events spiralling out of his control. Evading pursuit he abandons the city for the remote coastline of Cornwall where the real story finally emerges."
TWENTY YEAR ANNIVERSARY I am launching this film on YouTube because, much to my surprise, the film has weathered twenty years quite well. Despite a massive catalogue of rookie errors (the script is under-developed, performances uneven, dialogue sketchy, sound patchy and poorly lit, to name a few of its flaws) it has integrity as a youth film made entirely outside the system by a bunch of friends, and for all the right reasons. It has humour, attitude and shows British 90’s counter-culture in a way many will recognise. I remember wanting to make a film that showed a side to Britain rarely seen on screen outside of kitchen sink dramas and heritage porn, and on that small point I think it succeeds. For me personally the film has a kind of beautiful naivety - before the world of the internet was properly upon us.