Shooting for Localilly is scheduled to start on August 10th 2010. Before May 2010 a script didn't even exist.
It's a funny thing...
...It suddenly struck me that, in this country, there's not actually a law against private individuals making their own feature film. There are plenty of assumptions, conventions, unwritten givens that say it's probably not a good idea, and my default setting has been to buy into them without question. But these days, every time I catch myself buying into those unspoken but unquestioned rules that hang in the air all around me I realise I'm boring myself...to death, ultimately, if I don't watch it.
I'm making a feature film. And nobody can stop me. Not even myself.
I've had the idea for Localilly for a long time: a repressed Victorian woman is inadvertently time-travelled to the present day. My inspiration for this story comes from a desire to see a time travel done differently. More often than not the author becomes preoccupied by the past, the future and causality, and those themes have been pretty much done to death. For me the power and the interest lies here in the present. For me, the truly exciting opportunity that time travel presents is to bring a character from the past to the here and now so that we might see it afresh, through the eyes of another. Imagined pasts and futures can be fun, but who has the imaginative power to create a world as rich and textured as here and now. We live, surrounded by the most amazing world, and yet it seems mundane to us simply because it's a miracle that persists, a miracle that we continue to wake up to each morning and have thus grown used to.
That, to me, is fascinating.
So Lilly comes through time and she encounters this mundane present that we so take for granted. What might she notice that we have become impervious to?
Hmm...well, I guess I'm going to find out.
