Ripple

Ripple was inspired by one day in my life that went spectacularly wrong. None of the events are the same, but the build up of connected actions and the mounting sense of anxiety and frustration are horribly familiar and similar. The film was shot in Cambridgeshire, England over 2 days and 4 nights in early summer 2007 when it became dark at 10 at night and light again by 4.30am. We had a cast of seven people, a dog, a chicken, a low loader, a small motor home, two dozen eggs, lots of torches, cartons of soup, a kettle and a dodgy smoke machine.

In short it was exhilarating, frustrating, satisfying, exhausting, laughter inducing, the most rewarding experience of my career and a bloody nightmare. The only people to make any money was the Little Chef restaurant on the Baldock bypass.