short film by MattHEW gurney

"I'm not using my voice, even though I want to. I want to use my voice. But they took it away from me..."

Long time Ad Infinitum collaborator Matthew Gurney brings us a dark, acerbic and witty dystopian vision of an alternative reality. Playing all the characters and finding innovative ways to experiment with the theatrical in film, Matthew's commission draws creatively on the Silent Movie genre and probes at a disturbing history that's much closer to home than many realise...

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In BSL with English captions.

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MATTHEW GURNEY

Born and bred in Oxford, Matty joined Ad Infinitum's Light as Cyrus Dearden in the early 2010s. He has been collaborating with the Ad Infinitum team ever since! Matty won Best Actor award at Deaffest 2017 for his role in Small World (Deaf Sitcom) as Mitch The Plumber; he is an actor and director, known for Love's Labour's Lost: Performed at The Globe in Deafinitely Theatre’s British Sign Language production (2012), he wrote and directed his debut film, Me and My Wacky Doctor: On Our First Appointment! (2010) and performs in Switch (2001) The Fingerspellers (2010), Deaf Beat (2011) and has been working in TV / Theatre for several years since the early 2000s.

CREDITS

Written, directed, and performed by Matthew Gurney
Edited by Matthew Gurney
Music and Sound Design by Shai-li Paldi
Interpretation and translation by Kyra Pollitt