Last time I saw Jacqueline Wright and Alice Lowe they promised that they were working on their very own web portal through which they could splurge their own beautiful brand of silliness. Delightfully they’ve held good to that promise and recently gave electric birth to www.jackalfilms.co.uk. You can watch all their older material here including the brilliant Straight8 film “Stiffy”, but to celebrate this new bloom on the face of the internet they’ve given us two new music videos. One…

After the usual irregular gap, I am delighted to once more be bringing a pair of fine filmmakers to your attention and laying out both them and their work for your edification and delight beneath the hallowed roof of the British Film Institute. For those of you either new to Shooting People (481 of you last month) or just plain inattentive, let me explain. After years of scouring the Shooting People community for films of quality and distinction I realised…

Alice Lowe is one of the most gifted comic actresses currently working and one of her more interesting collaborations has been with filmmaker Jacqueline Wright. Their short films include the straight8 films “Stiffy” and “Sticks and Balls” which combine sex and death and sex and golf respectively and the longer, stranger and more unsettlingly beautiful “Out Of The Water”. I’m delighted to say that they’ve now been able to make a pilot comedy show for BBC3 and, being a pilot,…

Following my review of her splendid films, Jacqueline Wright has been in touch with two small but important pieces of information…. The actress who plays the dead girl in Stiffy is none other than Alice Lowe who also stars in her film “Out Of Water”, and who was thankfully delighted rather than offended that her versatility meant I didn’t recognise her in both… Secondly you can watch a mini-making-of for Stiffy if you click here!

After American documentaries about fantasy and reality, my mystery box of padded envelopes from padded cells has offered up a rather arresting collection of surreal and fantastical fiction shorts. One of my aims with this blog is to try and give some rough indicators of the general creative mood of the Shooting People community and, well, if last night’s random selection is anything to go by we’ve all been sucking on the same pipe as Luis Buñuel. First off, and…