Joseph Rutland

Head splitting was my first real attempt at creating effects with a mixture of editing and practical instead of wholesale practical. The David Bowie motif throughout the film was inspired a household he once visited which was covered wall-to-wall in Bowie memorabilia. The opening shot…

I have recently been trecking around Western Poland with my Girlfrend. Stranded outside on the first night, we had to seek refuge in a Blues Brothers themed bar. We ventured from Gdansk to Sopot (Polish Southport, complete with a nice curry) and the cold fishing…

This was for university, we were tasked with making an experimental film. The group thought that filming a guy going about his day with weird camera angles could work, however Joseph didn't think this was experimental enough so he helped morph the idea into the…

Possibly my favourite of my own films. The film evolved from the idea of somebody kidnapping a guy at a bar and slowly replacing his limbs with wooden ones until he became a puppet. Finding all the extras for the final scene was an absolute…

For this film, I played the part of somebody trapped in his film for a director down in Stoke on Trent. The film was supposed to be experimental by nature. I really didn't like Stoke on Trent as it was incredibly foggy and cold and…

Boooooo! I'm not proud of this film, thus has not released it. This was for a 48 hour film challange. However the script was thrown out and one guy kinda derailed everything then dipped on the editing section. The whole film is an audiatory-messy dissaster.

Wanting to make use of leftover by-products from casting faces in resin, I came up with the idea of his film 'A Lovely BBQ'. The film was shot entirely on a DJI Mini camera, giving it a somewhat surreal feeling due to the wide angle…