Filmmaker Statement

The film is a retrospect of addictions, madness drifting in between time lines and states of intoxication. Internalised conflict from the mind's eye, the subject finding a place in a toxic land where the only thing that makes sense is the senseless. Living within the push and pull of two worlds, hazily gripping on to the morality on offer within blurred lines of masculinity. Cultural narrow mindedness a homage to the underclass disposable wall fly. Underpinned by a monologue of despair that this isn't as it seems, there could be something else, something different? Something holding the stitches together of a culture that's broken. My friend Sam wrote the poem that is the backbone to this film as a memoir to his youth and the situations that made him into an addict that attempted his own life at thirty years of age. We developed his autobiographical poem into a screenplay and used professional actors alongside former addicts to authentically portray the inner workings of a lost youth.