| A dark, Kafkaesque tale, The Entomologist tells the tale of an exhausted man trying to get some sleep in a hotel room, whilst being plagued by insects...but do they inhabit the real world or the imagined... The film was based on a poem written by my brother Darren Etienne, which was then later developed by myself and Mark Swain, who subsequently designed the exquisite sets. After an attempt to make the film on limited money back in 1995, we began proper in the summer of 1997 after recieving money from what was formally known as 'East Midlands Arts' ~ now 'EM Media'. What followed was two years of intensive set and model making, and a lot of struggle. After further funding from South East Art, Meridian Television and The Lighthouse in Brighton, filming started in 1999, and in 2000 we finished the film and had it premiered on Meridian Television and at The Duke of York Cinema. The film later went on to be selected for nomination for the BAFTA short film awards and the Can Short Film Festival in Nottingham, and we were invited to the Abbeville Film Festival in France to show the film and give a talk on the making of it. |
