A film by Craig Bingham
HOUSE OF NOISE
Original Score: Gus Collins
SMOKE & MIRRORS
Colourist: Benjamin Rozario
Producer: Jack Kirkwood
RASCAL
Sound Creative Director: Neil Johnson
Sound Design: Neil Johnson
Sound Producer: Clementine Beck
Premiering over at Nowness :
Exploring conversations around masculinity, physicality and inherent differences among siblings, director Craig Bingham opens up family tensions that can arise from conflicting paths for short film Our Wayne.
Reconnecting through the struggles that first distanced them, he pieces together the friction between himself and his brother, reflecting on their shared upbringing in rural Yorkshire, and the gulf that grew as they evolved in distinct ways. Finding himself back home and helping his brother Wayne on a roofing job two hours drive away, Bingham sought to overcome the silence that had fallen after a particularly bitter dispute – questioning how their issues arose and escalated to this point.
“My brother, Wayne, and I have never seen eye to eye. The friction between us has always been there but never spoken about. This short touches upon his life and picks at the scab of our complicated relationship growing up – for me, it felt like a way to reconnect.”
Returning to the family farm in West Yorkshire, Bingham chose to shoot entirely solo, casting a strictly personal eye over the project with the conversation they share as its driving force. Captured through his own lens and Wayne’s perspective, Our Wayne retraces intimate memories in search of deeper understanding, attempting to reconcile their differences by approaching them with empathy.
