Writer/Director – Richard Ramchurn
Richard Ramchurn currently lives in Nottingham with his family where he developed his second brain controlled film “The MOMENT”. Founder of creative agency AlbinoMosquito, Richard has made and shown work on the BBC, TATE Modern, The Lowry, CONTACT, RNCM, The Royal Exchange, The Roundhouse, Grand Theatre Groningen, BRIC Brooklyn and in Sulimani Iraq, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. He is a practicing artist working across the mediums of theatre, film and digital technologies.
His current work centres around affective filmic brain computer interface technology. His film “The Disadvantages of Time Travel” has been shown in London, Nottingham, Liverpool, Dundee, West Lothian. The film has also been presented at academic conferences in Padua, Glasgow school of Art, Manchester University, San Jose CA, Bournemouth University. His research paper on Brain Controlled Movies won Best Art Paper at CHI16 in San Jose California.
Richard is Artistic Director at AlbinoMosquito.com
Cast
Andre – Ali Gadeema
Telema – Lula Mebrahtu
Lula received a DaDA Scholarship in 2014. She has been working across the arts since graduating: as resident host presenting at The London Jazz Festival, AfroPunk and Love Supreme Womad, as an actor, she is currently in R&D with The National, and as a musician, sound designing for HOA Dance Company and Filament Theatre Company’s production ‘Ruffus Longbottom and the Space Rabbit’. Lula is working on her own audio visual installation project using interactive Mimu Gloves ( gestural Midi controller) to create music and tell stories. Supported by B3 Media and Nottingham University the installation aims to re-imagine the idea of an immigrant in the future in an age when a city is erected on mars.
Astrea – Betty Kaplan
Quirky, edgy, hip, urban, loud, but also warm and approachable.
Petite and innocent-looking, yet also impish and athletic. B.A. in Theater
Dance background (Rock-n-Roll, Ballroom, modern)
Krav Maga and military training
Experience in film, commercial work and TV. Well traveled, fully tri-lingual, philosopher, artistic in other ways.
Hendricks – Jennifer Claire
Jennifer Claire is a London based actor and voice over artist who is passionate about collaborating with others to create and tell stories that inspire and uplift humanity. She believes that acting is about authentic connection and relating as well as revealing her essence and having fun! Jennifer is particularly interested in screen acting and leans especially towards Sci-Fi and the Supernatural.
She is generally considered for strong willed, passionate and confident characters who also have an inner softness so this could span professional career women, for example. Jennifer has an MA Psychology of Religion and is fascinated by the subconscious mind and how it can be used for personal development as well as an interest in mysticism/the supernatural.
Militia – Madison Fijalkowski
Militia – Simon Parker
I am a trained actor of six years from David Johnson’s, Brian Timmoney’s and Kate Marlow’s Schools of Acting. I also have international professional experience as an award winning writer and director.
Militia – Alex Thompson
Lance – Anton Saunders
I have been working in the Film and TV industry for over 10 years, some TV roles include the Emmy nominated Luther and the Bafta nominated Top Boy, a few directors I’ve worked including Michael Winterbottom, Paul McGuigan and Guy Ritchie.
In 2013 I won Best Actor award at the British Arrows for ‘Helpless’.
As well as acting I have been coaching both children and adults in acting and am one of the main directors at London School of Screen Acting.
Crew
Producer – Rachel Ramchurn
As a freelance producer Rachel’s work has ranged from short film, music videos and animation to large scale community projects. She has worked with AlbinoMosquito for many years and helped to facilitate the scanners prototype at international events and produced the short film ‘The Disadvantages of Time Travel’.
Director of photography – Mat Johns
Mat studied Film and Television at Salford University in the UK, and for the past ten years has been writing, directing, shooting and editing short films both on a freelance and independent basis.
‘A Father’s Day’, Mat’s latest film, is his most ambitious to date and was made with the support of Creative England’s iShorts, a short film initiative delivered as part of the BFI NET.WORK.
Camera Operator – Carl Davis
Carl Davies is a North West-based cinematographer and video maker. He holds a BA in Media Production and works at the crossroads between video, artists and art/cultural organisations. As a cinematographer, he has realized a number of film and video art projects, ranging from narrative to documentary to experimental. Carl has worked with Liverpool Biennial, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Manchester Camerarta Orchestra, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatre, TED X, Opera North, Sony Computer Entertainment and many others.
Sound Recording – William Morris
William Morris is a composer and sound designer working in Film, Television and Advertising, with credits for Playstation, Shell, Speedo USA, Nike, Gatorade and fantasy drama series ‘Making Sparks’.
A graduate of Leeds College of Music Conservatoire with first class honours in composition for screen, William studied under BAFTA nominated composer Neil Myers.
William is internationally published with Quantum Music Works and The Eggplant Stereo. He is currently based in Manchester, England
Production Designer – Rhiannon Clifford
Working as a freelancer in the art department for the last 7 years has given Rhiannon fantastic experience in many different areas of production design. Rhiannon enjoys the challenges of making props and also tackling large set builds, and particularly sourcing props. Rhiannon has worked on a range of projects including Short films, Commercials and Theatre productions. She really impressed us with some of her prop designs which included fake bricks, edible black apples and a mummified corpse! Wow!
Costume Designer – Lorna Black, Amy Cowell, Bethany Kelly
The effect of a high-quality costume is nothing less than magical. The job of the costume designer is to cast a spell over the audience, to work in tandem with the actor’s abilities to draw an audience into a world which isn’t there. Designing and making effective costumes is a craft I’ve delighted in honing during my time at Nottingham Trent University. I’m excited to begin a career in something I absolutely love doing.
CG Animation/Visuals – Luke Dewhurst
Luke Dewhurst is a professional CG artist based in the North of England.
Music Composer – Hallvardur Asgeirsson
Image by Karl Johann Jonsson.
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson is a composer working with electronic metamorphosis of live instruments. He has also written several pieces for choir, including Niður for the South Icelandic Chamber Choir. He has composed music to dance pieces by Saga Sigurðardóttir entitled Scape of Grace, Predator and Blýkufl. He has written music for the film Hreint Hjarta by Grímur Hákonarson and The Disadvantages of Time Travel by Richard Ramchurn.
Hallvarður has an M.Mus degree in composition from Brooklyn College and a BA in composition/new media from the Art Academy of Iceland.
Hallvarður is also a performing guitarist which uses interactive sound processing. He has built an instrument, the Vardiphone, in collaboration with Halldór Úlfarsson, which creates sound by inducing feedback in a string instrument in a controlled way.
Sound Designer – Scrubber Fox
Gary Naylor aka Scrubber Fox started performing as a musician in school 1995 in a Brass band and began composing his own music on an Atari ST in 1997. He is now a multi talented AV artist who builds his own circuit audio visual instruments, runs workshops with a diverse range of participants, and performs to large and small audiences across the UK. He has delivered workshops in Helsingor, Denmark, Edinburgh University, Leigh Turnpike gallery, Urbis, prisons, libraries as well as speaking at schools and colleges about his work. Since 2015 he has been creating AV installations using circuit bent vintage games consoles and video mapping. Scrubber Fox is a regularly supports Venetian Snares since 2012 and has also supported 65 days of Static. He has performed at Sines and Squares Festival in Manchester and in London at Bangface, Ginglick.
He has been a constant collaborator with AlbinoMosquito, creating sound design for their visual works.
Executive producer – Steve Benford
1st AD – Rick Simms
Gaffer – Sam Twyman
DIT – Sara Strachan
Production Assistant – Leonie Georgia Abisgold-Raynor
Production Assistant – Eilis Healey
Make up – Rebecca Tupman
Assistant Make Up – Hayley Tracey
Assistant Costume – Sophie Eaton
Camera Op – John Grey
Sound Assistant – Thurston Thompson
Art Dept Assistant – Ben Spink
Art Dept Assistant – Sheila Holland
Art Dept Assistant – Crystal Partington
Art Dept Assistant – Shabaz Singh Pall
Interaction Advisor – Sarah Martindale
Brain Computer Interface Advisor – Max L Wilson
Best Boy – Rupert Trendall
Runner – Mat Voigts
Transport – Danny Ainsworth
Stills Photographer – Charlene Jones
Catering – Samosa Shack
Thank you to
RockDove Rising
and
Jayne Arnold at Shores Fold Farm