A Day with Roger Deakin
2007 50’
The material for this was originally filmed and recorded by Mike and Danny Nissim (on a disappointingly sunless Autumn day), as the basis for a short promo-sequence with which to demonstrate to a Channel 4 commissioning editor how naturally and beautifully Roger talked about wood, with a view to the making of a series with him about it…which alas then didn’t happen. When sometime later Roger was diagnosed with the brain tumour that tragically killed him, we decided to put together everything we’d filmed in and around the beautiful Suffolk farmhouse that Roger had personally restored. The resulting 50’ encounter, assembled in collaboration with the film editor Shelagh Brady, is our way of remembering and celebrating Roger’s life and work, and the wonderfully illuminating conversations that always took place when one was with him.
