Simon Archer

Filmes

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.
Procura-se uma Noiva
Director of Photography
Jimmie Shannon preza sua liberdade mais até do que sua vida. Todos os seus amigos já se casaram, mas ele continua seguindo o mesmo estilo de vida de sua juventude, sem nem cogitar o dia em que irá até o altar. Entretanto, quando ele menos espera, se apaixona primeira vista pela adorável Anne. Após 3 anos de namoro e sentindo as pressões da namorada, Jimmie resolve ceder e a pede, relutantemente, em casamento, no mais romântico dos restaurantes. Mas, percebendo sua incerteza perante tal ato, Anne recusa a proposta e rompe com Jimmie. Pouco tempo depois, o avô de Jimmie falece e deixa para ele de herança cem milhões de dólares, desde que ele cumpra uma única condição: case-se antes de completar 30 anos. Que, por sinal, é no dia seguinte.
Stiff Upper Lips
Director of Photography
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
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.
O Contrato do Amor
Grip
Um desenhista emergente e ambicioso é empregado pela senhora de uma mansão campestre para que execute uma série de desenhos em troca de favores sexuais. Fábula sobre sexo e dominação, ambientado no fim do século XVII.