The Catch Up Selected Credits Starring Luke Sumner and Andreea Tudose // Written by Rosie Potts // Directed by Rosie Potts and Andreea Tudose // Produced by Rosie, Andreea and Nina Sielski // DOP Denise Woods // Edited by Piotr Zychniewicz // Sound design by Benet Serra // Music composed by Justin Wright // Gaffer Kevin Gibb // First AC James Malamatinas // Second AC Tera Pechmannova // First AD Aurian Houde.

Process This project prioritised experimentation. I was interested in experimenting with telling a story on film that had no dialogue, and where inanimate objects came alive. Artist, theatremaker and filmmaker Andreea Tudose and I co-directed this film, with Andreea playing the protagonist. We began with a story I created and told to Andreea, which she then told back to me. Through this telling and re-telling back and forth, and discussing our feelings and associations, the original story stayed the same but it’s meaning deepened and the protagonist’s emotional experience became more specific. The tone of the piece also emerged: we realised we were interested to create something that felt mythic, with elements of absurdity and black comedy.

Throughout the process we have been interested in the variety of different meanings and interpretations given to the story by different collaborators and audience members. Following on from this theme, with composer Justin Wright we found our way to the final score through a process of successive improvisations. We were also interested in creating a score that can be played live in the theatre by one cello (in the tradition of silent films).