Spanner Films - Lows

500 million people on the case?

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:05:52 +0000

The last ever day filming Crude didn't start too well for poor Lizzie as the hire car she picked up yesterday developed a flat tyre and she spent half the night organising tow trucks. Then had to get up at 5.30am to pick me and new soundman Ben up to drive to Bedford for the result of Piers's three-year battle to get planning permission for his latest windfarm.

Biology, physics & chemistry conspiring

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:04:39 +0000

Rooney and his pals failed to wop Israel's asses in the World (or is it Euro?) Cup qualifier last night, not that I care. But it did result, as anticipated, in the first communication from My Certain Someone since our New Year's Eve resolution. Exchanging some flip nationalistic football insults set me off pining for some real exchange with him.

Stuck in limbo land again

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:50:54 +0000

Rasmia & Noor.

Photograph: Sabri Hakim

Trip to the dead sea

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:41:05 +0000

We'd arranged a bonding trip to the Dead Sea today, for Rasmia and Jamila to have a rare good time and, hopefully, trust us a little more. They are understandably very nervous of British people - as their lives have been destroyed by the Americans (and British). So we booked a minibus and a load of kids we picked up at the school video session.

Martin Adler shot dead

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:25:14 +0000

My long-term distributor, some-time editor, part-time counsellor and full-time friend, Mark Stucke, called this morning with the horrific news that his great friend - and frequent filmmaking partner - freelance cameraman Martin Adler was shot dead by an unknown gunman at a peaceful rally in Somalia yesterday. Fucking shit.

A day at the races

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:55:22 +0000

"Ear protectors" for sale at Santa Pod racestrip - and the anti-wind campaingers say the windfarm proposed next door will be too noisy

Human race may as well destroy themselves

sylvia — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:20:11 +0000

Missed our night train to Chamonix after the Eurostar broke down and deposited us in Paris two hours late. So then we had four hours’ sleep in a dodgy hotel, the first train South, unfortunately full of what we are assuming are gonnabe soldiers. We'd been hoping to catch up on some sleep, but they put a stop to that. Then I cracked my tooth on, of all things, a crisp. Looks like the first job in Chamonix will be to find a dentist.

Excruciating pain

sylvia — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:29:29 +0000

The typical amount of gear we carry around would be enough to do anyone's back in

Photograph: Charlotte Rushton

The world is doomed. And the film's no good.

sylvia — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:20:39 +0000

Finished reading "The Party's Over" in France and, as the full implications sink in, down goes my sunny disposition with it. Which reminds me of something a climate change specialist I met in Tuvalu (Pacific island being abandoned cos of rising sea levels) a couple of years ago said: that anyone who works on climate change gets deeply depressed and gets out after a couple of years.