From an unusual perspective, we follow Philip around his neighbourhood in Hackney, East London. He is mentally unwell and misses his wife and daughter very much. ————————————————- TV & ONLINE: Canal+ multiple TV broadcasts in France, Spain, Switzerland and across Africa. Dazed “Visionaries” ————————————————- FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival Seoul International Film Festival (Best Experimental Film) Bristol Encounters International Film Festival St Petersburg International Film Festival East End Film Festival (Best Short Film) Rushes Soho Shorts (Finalist) Raindance (Finalist) Dresden International Short Film Festival Guanajuato International Film Festival Moscow International Film Festival ————————————————- CREDITS: writer/director/editor/producer – billy lumby dop – brett turnbull technical development – tony hill sound design – dario swade post production – students at escape studios lead vfx & coordination – klaudija cermak and davi stein principal cast – cornell s. john, hammed animashaun ————————————————- WEBSITE: http://www.billy.fm

This film made by I Am Los Angeles originally was published by the New York Times. During summer breaks, my dad, who worked as a librarian, would bring home Westerns on VHS tape and we’d watch them together. I was fascinated and intrigued by the iconic cowboy characters living out an understated yet dramatic, high-stakes existence against such a spartan, other-worldly backdrop. Sure, much of this was a Hollywood fantasy, but the west truly was once the land of cowboys and indians. And now, in a relatively short period of time, things have changed quickly. Instead of sprawling ranches dotted with quiet loner cowboy types, the landscape is now largely populated by homogeneous residential communities and big box retailers. Perhaps out of a desire for life to seem simpler, and less encumbered by the lifestyle inherent to all our modern conveniences, I went looking for the closest thing I could find to that cowboy from the silver screen. This is how I happened upon Gary Leffew, an old-school yet surprisingly gregarious rodeo cowboy with some profound things to share about his philosophy on life and his sport. After meeting Mr. Leffew, I was haunted by this feeling that he represents an era that is slowly disappearing and becoming part of the region’s history. It was this feeling that urged me to make a character-driven short film that would encapsulate his character, experiences with the sport of rodeo, and general outlook on life.