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Benjamin Collins

Artist Filmmaker
Editor, Visual Effects, Cinematographer, Director of Photography.

About Me:

Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: 10 years + filming, lighting, editing, interviewing, colour grading, compositing, marketing, more recently writing and directing small projects.

Biography:

I have spent the past decade working with nonprofits, brands, and the Arts.

My Work and Credits:

The Passerby (2024)

About: A short film that explores the story of Josh, a young artist who is the victim of domestic abuse from his girlfriend. When he is about to take his life, a passerby, Nick, steps in.

Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Mulholland Drive

I cried watching:

Howl's Moving Castle

I left the cinema during:

Never have!

Directors I love:

Paul Dugdale, Stephen Spielberg, David Lynch, Alfonso Cuaron, Hayao Miyazaki, Hideo Kojima

Actors I admire:

Marlon Brando, Edie Falco

Writers I Respect:

Quentin Tarantino, Chekhov

My desert island discs:

Saturday Night Wrist - Deftones,
Split The Atom - Noisia

Books I have given my friends:

Aristotle - Poetics, Amor and Psyche

My death row meal:

Gotta be a steak

The best thing I own:

I have many leather bound books!

My favourite bridge:

Severn