Don’t Look Back
Digital film
1.57 minutes


Don’t Look Back. Driving down the motorway backwards, cause the cars fucked. “We didn’t have anything to loose. Go to work, spend your money… when we had money.” We’d break loose. These days. There’s less fun. More outgoings. More to manage. fake it till you make it? If that makes sense… “it didn’t work at all”. But thanks for trying. 

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN EMMA AND LES. “NAH I WOULDN’T OF, NO, HE MADE ME PROMISE THAT I WOULDN’T SAY ANYTHING, SO I PROMISED HIM, BUT YEAH, HE DROPPED ME OFF A HUNDRED QUID TODAY BLESS HIM, YEAH, HE WAS GETTING SO EMOTIONAL, OH, WELL I WOULDN’T KNOW WOULD I CAUSE HE HASN’T EVEN BOTHERED TO RING ME AND TELL ME THAT HE’S ENGAGED.”

EXTRACTION FROM ‘DON’T LOOK BACK’

“You’re a good lad, you are”. More rubbish piling up. “Alright Albert, look I’m on camera. You went fishing didn’t yer?” “Yeah”. I’ll sell you one for a better price. A way better price. “It’s a nice colour as well aint it. I don’t need to look for a car anymore” but knock on tomorrow. He ain’t in, but you know where I am. “Ta-ra.”

Girls, girls, girls. Walking in school uniform, chatting with ice snappers in their hands, the colour palette was stunning, reminds me of a school romance, living at my best friend’s mum’s house, music video channel on television after school, eating Wheatabix, too much sugar, too much sugar in class, friends making fun of me, teacher sat me next to her. 

I had a fish that escaped. my uncle took me out for the day and i came back with a fish. it was called Golide. one day he disappeared. And then when we moved out, we saw him, stuck to the wall behind the chest of draws. He’d jumped out and tried to escape. he was really dry and smelly. kinda like the sea.