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Director’s Statement
I wanted to make a short, short film, and I didn’t want it to take itself too seriously. I’d seen a lot of shorts that used personal testimony and VO to tell pretty one dimensional stories with zero sense of irony and a generalised arty aesthetic. Semi Skimmed was basically conceived as a playful send up of a certain breed of Po Faced coming of age story.
What I tried to do with Semi Skimmed is lead an audience into think they were watching a certain type of film, and then mess with these expectations for comic effect. The film draws on range of influences, most notably classic period noire, to create a cinematic pastiche that treads a fine line between believable hyperbole and total absurdity.
Thanks for watching!
James Soldan 