LEGACY OF AN INSIBLE BULLET
An unparalleled multiformatted reflection composed of 170+ short films.
Film-maker Doug Aubrey has spent his entire adult and professional life with a camera in his hand observing the world and getting into trouble. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer after a winter surf trip, he’s turned his camera’s gaze inward and set about making roughly 150 short films that captures the "moment" and the process. A stream of fragments exploring an "inland geography" that is populated by fear, hopes, dreams and a creative imagination facing the end of life.
This stream of consciousness will take us to Glasgow packing up Doug’s life leaving for Denmark, cheering at a Celtics game amongst hooligans, biking through Copenhagen, investigating the (atomic) heritage of the Balkan Wars and into Doug’s bathroom investigating the physical and psychological wounds.
Throughout the films actress Charlotte Munck appears narrating and playing both herself and the film-maker – almost as a living avatar.
Using this experimental and intimate way of narrating, the films explore male insecurity and the last and lost sweat of youth. Audiences experience what happens, when something life-threatening happens to you, like cancer, and you lose your armour and suddenly starts questioning your whole existence and identity.
In that sense The Legacy of an invisible bullet could also be seen as a 21st century play on the classical theme of Androgyny: A subversion of gender identity, the languages that we inhabit, in this case Danish and English and the roles we play or are forced to play as Male and Female, as Observers and the Observed. Roles that define us, our lives and our time frames – at least in this world.
PROJECT
Title: Legacy of an Invisible Bullet
Director: Doug Aubrey
Producer: Marie Olesen and Jesper Jack
Actress & Dougs alter ego: Charlotte Munck
Composer: TS. Hawk
Illustrator: Harald Pisket
Duration: 157+ short films, feature and interactive experience
Platforms: Interactive doc, museum/installation and cinema
Partners: DFI (development), Autonomi Ltd (Scotland), Creative Europe, Creative Scotland, Northern Souls, The Danish Arts Council
Delivery: 2023
STATUS: UNDER PRODUCTION
