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Spinnaker Leech (2003)

Grad film

Directed by Mark Hewis

Synopsis
A mini-musical about a man who runs away from a wicked home where he lives with his mother and nurse at the age of 34.  He runs to a beach where he sings to his dolld and brings them to life so they can share secrets and dance.  But throughout the Nurse is gaining on the man--Spinaker Leech--until they meet for the finale.
Director's Statement
I wanted to make a film which felt like a celebration.  i wanted to take the audience on a huge journey in the same way as early musicals did; where the questions about reality and fantasy blur into a soup of imagery.  I also wanted to leave enough of the darkness of the human mind within the characters so as to give them an edge, and the audience just a little unease.