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May 28, 2005
Future now: Sheffield's Warp Films
Warp, the record label and producers of Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny due on DVD in June, tell the Telegraph what they're all about: Amid all the stories of doom and gloom usually written about the state of the British film industry, the impact made by Warp Films, a tiny three-person operation based in Sheffield, provides some hope for its future. The first ever film they produced, a 10-minute short by satirist Chris Morris about a man walking his dog in the middle of a mental breakdown, won a Bafta in 2003. Their first feature, Dead Man's Shoes, a revenge thriller cut through with black humour, was seen as a return to form for its director Shane Meadows. Yet the company's background is not in film at all but in the field of electronic music.... Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell started Warp at the height of the acid house craze in 1989. The label shared its name with the record store they ran in Sheffield. From the start, Warp released music that challenged the perceptions of dance music as mindless... The move into film wasn't so much a leap into the unknown but, says Beckett, "a natural follow-on from the connections we'd already made with people in that field". [More at the link, including news of developing a new feature with Lynne Ramsay.]
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I saw Rubber Johnny last week at a screening. Probably few other people have but it made me think, that Chris Cunningham is stuck in an artistic rut. Everything he does is exactly the same these days.
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