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The Visitation
is my live-action directorial debut and was produced by Kavita
Kapoor. The film was previewed at STAR ONE, a Blake's 7 convention
in Stockton on Tees in March. It received its official premiere
on August 9th this year at Bar Saaqi on London's Poland Street.
Here's what the reviewers have been saying:
"Another
‘first’, was the screening of the short film ‘The
Visitation’ starring Paul Darrow as Doctor Hector Lovelock.
This took place on Sunday morning and was followed by a question
and answer session with Paul and the Director of the film, J.
J. Guest. Based on an incident at High Beech, when a strange glow
was reported over the forest, five eye witnesses told of their
experiences during this phenomenon. Doctor Lovelock’s expert
analysis interspersed their reminiscences. A tale of the supernatural
or The X-Files meets Play School? The eye witness accounts varied
as widely as the eyewitnesses themselves, who included a lady
whose dog was ill, so she was ‘walking the dog, without the
dog’, and a children’s author whose grip on reality
appeared tenuous at the best of times. And Doctor Lovelock? The
forceful delivery of his pronouncements, accompanied by some wonderful
facial expressions, suggested this expert’s opinions would
carry weight. Or would they, seeing his preferred reading seemed
to be Tilly and Tom’s Adventures in Teapot Land!"
Gillian Puddle,
from her review
of Star One 2006
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reasoning of the subjective interpretations by each character
leads one to contemplate whether we are to rubbish each revelation
outright or more radically reflect and query the notion of
a shared reality... It may be crude to suggest The Visitation
tries hard to do much more than humour, though there are windows
of sincerity which Guest may or may not have intended to be
peered through. The script is at times very funny, with Tommy
Herbert (Stephen Pickford) in particular delivering his lines
with a precise measure of lampoon. Whilst the unique accounts
of events are mockingly-tall, Dr Lovelock, never discredits
them. He is essentially gravity to our five so-called ordinary
people, successfully straining to prevent them from escaping
a world they barely seem to inhabit anyway."
Luke
Nicholson, from his Digital
Deli review of the film.
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