Silent Hill: Stolen Heart Filmmaker Releases New Short Lost Hope
Jonathan Barkan
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If you’re a fan of the Silent Hill franchise and have been a part of that community, chances are that you’ve run across a short film by the name of Silent Hill: Stolen Heart. If that short drew your interest, then the man behind it, Hamish Downie, is back with another short for all of you to check out, although this one is a bit more avant garde, if you can believe that!
Directed by Downie and featuring the music of DJ Mistress Macabre (aka Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc), Lost Hope is meant, “…to give the viewer a feeling that they’d stumbled upon an old VHS tape in the back of an abandoned police storage holder.”
The inspiration for the film came from DJ Mistress Macabre’s track “Lost Hope”, which Hamish chose because, “…it reminded me of David Lynch – specifically ‘Twin Peaks’. So, I instantly got the idea of the last moment’s of a innocent’s life recorded on film – a kind of homage to the 1960s cult film “Peeping Tom”, where a filmmaker kills his victims with a knife attached to a shooting camera. A minefield for any wannabe Freuds. Plus, I also wanted to homage the Andy Warhol video portraits. Hence why the film is mostly done with long POV shots.”
The film was shot on a Nexus Android Phone using the VHS-Cam app to mimic the look and feel of an old snuff film.
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