Down By Dawn
The film tells the story of an elderly booze-addled man, who lives a banal, rural life repeating the same, systematic routine over and over.
Seeking escape from his drab existence he devours old spaghetti westerns–becoming spellbound by their protagonists. Inspired by their heroic, he embarks on a cross-country journey in a desperate attempt to track down a girl he once knew, willing to do whatever necessary to rekindle a long-lost love.
Role: Director & Writer
Client: Patagonia
Year: 2018
The film’s subjects, nature and blood, are at once the humblest imaginable, and the most implicitly poetic. Confronted with death he fights to preserve some aspect of happiness, which manifests itself as a vivid memory of his childhood love.
The journey he embarks on serves to frame his existential anxieties: how insignificant his life can seem when measured against a bigger, wider world, and the risk of spending his last few years alone.