A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 12, 2019
Original Title:
The Popular Touch
Genres:
Comedy
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 23
Work, film, work, film, work – day to day – week to week. This is a home movie domestic comedy experimental film drama. Autobiography too. It’s also part four of an ever-growing trilogy. Starting in 2003 I decided to make a series of pieces alongside my regular films, a strand that would constitute an ongoing fictional autobiography. But as all creative work is, to some extent, autobiographical, and as I appear in most of my films, and all the people in these films are who they say they are, then what made this different from the rest – or from real life, really – became kind of blurred. Fuzzy even. So this is fuzzy fiction – latest in the line.
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