One morning. Two points of view. Will today be the day? Laura desperately hopes that it will. Otherwise it's just another morning dealing with Alice, her overbearing mother. But back at the beginning again, the events of the morning look altogether different to Alice.
A film that weaves oil-painted animation with live-action film, to peel back the layers of consciousness and reveal one family's dark history. 

The Nest is a film about how an individual's past is always lurking underneath the present. My aim with this film was to use both the form and content to tell a story about the high drama which can go on in one's head, hidden beneath the normality of outward appearances. It is a film snapped in two, both in narrative and in technique, which by both holding you and dropping you into new perspectives, I hope finds a way of finally bringing something together again. 

Royal College of Art  28th June 2010
Selected by the British  Council Film Department 

Nat Cohen Scholarship