Author: Hamish Downie

Hamish Downie is an Australian writer/producer and music video director based in Japan. Notable work includes the music video for Robyn Loau's single "Never Let You Down", and the multi-award winning short film, "An American Piano", which he wrote & produced, and was officially selected to screen at the TIFF Kids 2015 festival. His most recent short film, "Silence", his directorial debut, is travelling the festival circuit now, and has received a notable mention from the Let's All Be Free Festival in the UK.

Impossible To Imagine (2019)

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Here’s a lovely review from Chris Watt, who reviewed my short film “Silence” many years ago. This is for a film I produced, “Impossible to Imagine”

CHRIS WATT

The notion of progress grating against tradition is at the heart of writer/director Felicity Tillack’s debut feature film, Impossible To Imagine.

It’s a gentle film, with a bittersweet undercurrent, that carefully crafts a love story about two complete opposites, Ami, played with a quiet tenderness and longing by Yukiko Ito , and Hayato, a charismatic, well-judged turn from William Yagi.

Ami runs her family’s kimono shop, in a working class area of Kyoto, where she also lives with her father (Kazuya Moriyama.) It’s a neighbourhood on the verge of being forgotten (even the school is closed) and you get the sense that time has stood still for this family, since the departure of the mother. Time is a factor in every element of life here. From the pace of the traditional tea ceremony, to the lack of business that threatens to see the family shop closed down, Ami finds…

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Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #4 – All for the Praise of Men

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All for the Praise of Men: How it all started It's all my Mother's fault. She didn't intend to, but she turned my sister and I onto music. She was hoping to give us a well rounded education. She would take us to the Art Gallery, and lug us kids around. And we would grow … Continue reading Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #4 – All for the Praise of Men →

Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir – #2 Precious Cargo

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Precious Cargo. The day I met King was a grey one. The flight from Australia was longer than either I or my Mother who insisted on chaperoning me had imagined. My fourteen journeys around the sun hadn't yet granted me the right to travel alone. While the outer embarrassed teen didn't want his Mother anywhere … Continue reading Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir – #2 Precious Cargo →

Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #0

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FORWARD "Like his mentor, ditch the album and go to the live show. Some artists come alive in the recording studio, yet other artists can turn dull without a crowd to perform to... "Grows No Moss Magazine, March issue 2001 After that review, James Charlotte a.k.a Charles Snow a.k.a. the lead singer of Raven Snow, couriered … Continue reading Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #0 →

Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #1

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A Raven in the Snow Ever since I can remember, I've been famous. Different levels of course. I've both run away and towards the spotlight. What a fool I was. But, what a great life I have had. Let's not beat around the proverbial bush, you already know a lot about me. Some of which … Continue reading Still Life in Forward Motion: A Rock Memoir #1 →