Liam!

Woo hoo! The lovely Liam Clarke is onboard and playing the tailor Henry Shields.

 

Since graduating from Drama Centre London, Liam’s credits include The Country Wife at The Theatre Royal Haymarket, as Michael in The Tinker’s Wedding at the Union Theatre, John in A Burst of Love at Theatre 503 and Father Patrick in Sinchronicity (BBC3).  He has recently appeared as Demetrius and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on a tour of Irish Concert Halls with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Captain Plume in The Recruiting Officer in the Farquhar Theatre festival in Derry and acted in and directed the internationally award-winning short film 2 Tonne Hands. Upcoming work includes the feature film X-tine’s Diary and as Henry V for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Park Scene Rushes - ROUGH ASSEMBLY

Kimmo and Jessica filmed Kathleen (Sullivan) and Liam (Henry) during the sudden October warm spell. This is a rough assembly of the rushes. It was quite late in the day and still very hot in South London.

Needle Screening

Our darling cinematographer Jessica Cheeseman's short film Needle (which also features the hand-acting and hair-acting of two X-tine's Diary actors, Kathleen Bryson and Emma Thimbleby, respectively!) is screening this Friday at The Others in Stoke Newington at Exploding Cinema.


Needle is an abstract film about how loss can transform the way someone views everyday life. Here the fabric of the earth has changed, and black holes have become a malleable substance used to attempt to suffocate pain and thwart the flow of blood to vital organs. Time shifts and slows down to the confines of living underwater - where the liquid surface is now so dense that it is possible to pierce it with a cold, sharp needle.

EXPLODING CINEMA

Friday 30 Sept 2011, 8pm

at The Others

6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 5SA

Rail & Tube: Stoke Newington, Dalston Junction, Dalston Kingsland,

Finsbury Park / Bus: 106, 243, 149, 67, 73

Conor Gibson as "Jeremy"

Yay! We also are happy to introduce Conor Gibson as postgrad student "Jeremy".

Conor Gibson has extremely limited acting experience on both stage and screen. As well as making minor contributions to the story of X-tine's Diary, he writes cowardly pseudonymous blogs and occasional abortive longform texts. Originally from Belfast, he has lived amongst the English for 9 years, and in London for 5.

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Deborah Espect

We are very pleased that Deborah will be playing the character "Tina", one of Sullivan's two good female friends.

Deborah Espect is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Her first novel, My Self, the Enemy, was published in 2005. Since then she has written a number of critically acclaimed plays that have been performed in various theatres in London, including the Old Red Lion, the King’s Head and the Hen & Chickens in Islington, the Soho in Central London and the Tabard in Turnham Green. She has appeared in the horror film Bordello Death Tales, the short film An Empty Chair and the play Monkey Feeds the Robot at the Old Red Lion. A second short film that she has written, Dog Day, will be produced in October 2011. Deborah is currently working on her second novel and a feature film.

Scene 56 - Characters Henry and Sullivan in Singapore

 

Vlog No. 5: Discussion Regarding the Lead Character's Infidelity in X-tine's Diary

Vlog No. 4: "Kathleen Gets Distracted By Her Own Sexy Boots"

The Terror Sisters Are Everywhere...

(photo by Jessica Cheeseman)

Vlog No. 3: "What accent are you doing, Conor?"* (*have patience, dear friends, the video will load eventually)

Vlog No. 2: "I don't really know what you want from me, Kimmo?"* (*have patience, dear friends, the video will load eventually)

Updates, Updates

So, we have been on a bit of a hiatus as a seminal member of our crew was married last week - as such, once the honeymooners have returned, we'll be kicking back into production gear again and we promise to update soon with v-logs (2!) and - if you're lucky - wedding pictures. Yes, stay posted!

Jess, Kimmo, Kathleen, Emma

photo by Ruki

photo by Ruki

On What Shall Henceforth Be Known as the "Septic Arm" Shoot (October 2010)



Kathleen Bryson
(all photos courtesy of Emma Thimbleby and Ruki Hashi)

Kathleen Bryson and Ruki  Hashi

Kathleen and Ruki

Jessica films X-tine (Emma Thimbleby) and Sullivan (Kathleen Bryson)

Jessica, Kimmo, Kathleen, Emma

Kimmo, Emma

Kathleen, Jessica, Kimmo

Teeth (Sullivan's Video Diary, November 2010 Shoot)

Sullivan's Paper Diary, between teeth (Kathleen Bryson)

Sullivan's Video Diary (Kathleen Bryson)

More Stills from the Dream

Sullivan sews (Kathleen Bryson)

Sullivan by the Raining Tree (Kathleen Bryson)

Cast & Crew - The Emmas!

Emma Thimbleby - playing title character X-tine!

Emma is currently studying a Music Techniques and Composition Course at Birkbeck.  Her acting roles to date have included a walk-on part as a greeting lover in the cult film The Viva Voce Virus, some hair acting in Jessica Cheeseman’s short Needle and now, her most challenging role to date, elements of X-tine in X-tine’s Diary.

Emma read Religious Studies and Philosophy at King’s College London before embarking on a series of occupations including teaching (issues with being the voice of authority), nursing (issues with the sight of blood) and finally IT (likes typing).

And... Emma Byrne - playing Helene, one of the two Terror Sisters!

Emma Byrne got her first break in film acting in Katleen Bryson and Kimmo Moykky's previous feature film The Viva Voce Virus as the naive but ambitious Emily. Recent stage productions include several regal roles: she played Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons in the feminist retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Revenge of the Amazons (Network Theatre, London 2011) and Anne of Cleves in the time travelling romantic comedy Time for Love (Network Theatre 2010). She's also reclined in luxury as a penthouse guest in Electric Hotel (Sadler's Wells/Shunt).

She trained at the City Lit Jazz Workshop for several years and has studied voice production and acting at Morley College. She also has several lighting design and prop design credits in both film and theatre. In civilian life she is a research scientist in the Lottolab at University College London studying the origins of colour perception in the brain.