John Grey

Movies

Rough Cut
Cinematography
Rough Cut, the debut feature from London-based artist Jamie Shovlin, explores the re-making of an exploitation film that never was. At its dark heart is Hiker Meat, an archetypal 1970s slasher movie imagined by Shovlin, complete with hitchhiking heroine, charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one. This tantalising film-within-a-film serves to both deconstruct and pay affectionate homage to the often-maligned exploitation style. Having created a full screenplay, score and cut-and-paste prototype for Hiker Meat, Shovlin filmed key sections and a full trailer in an intense shoot in the Lake District in summer 2013. Rough Cut contrasts these re-made sequences with on-set footage and insights into the development of Hiker Meat’s script, soundtrack and design, to create a compelling mash-up of self-referencing processes, behind-the-scenes viewpoints and time-honoured slasher tropes.
Radio Silence
Cinematography
The daily routine of zombie apocalypse survivor Elaine Barrett, barricaded in her house in Salford, her family long since perished, keeping body and soul together with a diet of tinned food and punishing exercise. And every day, a radio broadcast to the world, searching for others like her…
Maybe
Writer
John Grey’s ‘Maybe’ is a short film about a man and a woman who wait together at a bus stop. While waiting the man can’t help but wonder if this girl is the girl of his dreams.
Maybe
Director
John Grey’s ‘Maybe’ is a short film about a man and a woman who wait together at a bus stop. While waiting the man can’t help but wonder if this girl is the girl of his dreams.