#TheDayAfterFilm2022

[danielthomasfreeman]

You can now watch my experimental short film The Day After for free on both Vimeo and YouTube.

I'm very pleased to say that the film has now won awards at all four of the festivals it has been screened at: BEST UK EXPERIMENTAL SHORT at Dreamers of Dreams, PEOPLE'S CHOICE at the South Coast Film Festival and BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM (RUNNER UP) at both Brighton Rocks and London Rocks.

I decided to make the film freely available today as it is exactly a year since I started making it as a personal response to the terrible events in Ukraine on 24th February 2022. This prayerful lament will not be to everyone's taste but I hope there will be something in the slow, meditational images and music which helps a few people.

Please note that, while there is nothing untoward in the images or sound, I would not recommend this film for young children.

Thanks for watching.

Daniel Thomas Freeman

https://vimeo.com/730493775 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUB6uRDcq6Q descendingangel.com

[danielthomasfreeman]

My new abstract/electronic album 'The Day After' is out today on digital platforms.

I must admit it feels very odd to be creating any social media post on the same day that Andrew Walker, a senior coroner in the UK, has quite rightly pointed the finger at Meta (Facebook + Instagram + WhatsApp) for their part in the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell stating that, "She died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content" (source: BBC News). As ever in recent times, I feel very apprehensive about social media which is why I now post so little.

In contrast, my hope for the 'The Day After' project is that, in some small way, it will be helpful or valuable to those that see and/or hear it. I created it as a personal, artistic response to the desolation we're seeing as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and now, maybe for a few people, this could act as a channel for anger or grief or confusion when nothing seems to make sense.

The album consists of a single 39-minute track of controlled feedback, drone choirs, a little electric violin and a thick morass of analogue + digital electronics. Although rightly dominated by a slow, glacial, heavy lament for most of its length, something like hope breaks through in the final minutes: a prayer that resolution will come. It's an extended version of the score to the experimental short film of the same name which is screening at smaller film festivals this year, including the London Rocks Film Festival in November.

You can find the album on Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp etc.

If you can't afford a music streaming service, note that you can now play the album as many times as you like for free on Bandcamp (although any purchase through BC is much appreciated).

Love and God bless, Dan

https://danielthomasfreeman.bandcamp.com/album/the-day-after-original-film-soundtrack https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-day-after/1638878842 https://open.spotify.com/album/0j3LdASx6Nj4X9Kz0uxwcl?si=qwXLRGGiRS-gxmwqVHgWrw

[danielthomasfreeman]

A big day: I've just finished submitting my new film 'The Day After' into 13 UK film festivals.

More details to come once it's either got selected for a festival or two ... or it hasn't and I do the Vimeo + YouTube free release anyway :).

After the 5 year intensity of writing, directing, shooting, editing, scoring, promoting (and then spending over a year recovering from) my last film, the feature 'The Silence After Life', this is a much smaller and shorter project before - hopefully - starting to shoot a larger project next year with some of my compadres from the feature.

And this time I'll let the film pretty much find it's own audience so, although I'll do a little bit of social posting here and there, I'm hoping to actually go to a film festival or two and meet some real, live, actual people! :).

Oh ... and there's an album of extended score on its way too.

Hope you're able to enjoy your summer,

Love, Dan