Simon Archer

Películas

Another Life
Director of Photography
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
El soltero
Director of Photography
Jimmie siempre ha tenido claro cuales son las tres cosas importantes de la vida: permanecer soltero, permanecer soltero y permanecer soltero. Pero todo cambia cuando muere su abuelo y le deja en herencia la fabulosa cifra de 20 millones de dólares con una sola condición: que contraiga matrimonio antes de los 33 años. Para ese momento sólo faltan 24 horas y todas las novias y ex-novias de Jimmie parecen haberse conjugado para darle calabazas.
Arrogantes y exquisitos
Director of Photography
Parodia del cine británico de época, al estilo del de James Ivory (que a propósito es el apellido de la familia protagonista de la historia).
Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again
Cinematography
A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.
Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs
Director of Photography
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
El contrato del dibujante
Grip
En el verano de 1694, el señor Neville, un ambicioso y prometedor dibujante, visita la mansión del señor Herbert, en Compton Anstey (Wiltshire). La mujer del anfitrión le encarga doce dibujos de la casa con el foso y los exquisitos jardines. Sin embargo, Neville se verá envuelto en una intriga doméstica que lo convertirá en sospechoso de adulterio y algunas cosas más.