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Driven
10 minutes | Teen | 2008 | 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A writer gets lost in his fiction and releases two ominious characters from his subconscious.
SynopsisA writer retreats into isolation in order to complete his masterpiece. Through his obsession with his work he becomes oblivious to his wife and to all other worldly distractions. Cocooned in his fiction, the boundary between imagination and reality begins to blur. Two ominous characters appear who delight in tormenting the writer. They are Eros (the life instinct and pleasure principle) and Thanatos (the death instinct and reality principle) from Freud's theories of the subconscious. His wife tries desperately to halt her husband's mental decline but only succeeds in alienating him further. In pursuit of solitude, the writer flees the city for a remote countryside, where he allows himself to become completely consumed by his imagination. Eros and Thanatos return. Here, alone, the writer is most vulnerable to the will of these malicious drives.
Director's StatementThe inspiration behind the ‘Driven’ story came from a time in my life when I was witnessing a lot of friends struggling with the creative process when writing/ creating their own work and also Freud’s fascinating theory of the Eros and Thanatos drives within the subconscious, which coincidently I was reading at the same time. Both gave me multiple visual ideas to express how the pressures that some creatives put themselves under can begin to alter their characters. In 'Driven' this is taken to the extreme - the protagonist has become a selfish, narcissistic hermit. The film blurs the line between imagination and reality and has dark themes, so I decided a neo-noir look for the film would enhance its effect on the audience.
Yvette Farmer
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Written by: Yvette Farmer
Produced by: Yvette Farmer
Cast
Eros: Stephanie RichardsWriter's Wife: Mia Austen
Writer: Jack Cassidy
Thanatos: Victoria Hopkins
Crew
Cinematographer: David CaponEditor: Gwyn Moxham
Music: Reza Safinia
Urban Forest Pictures (London, UK) -- Best Director (Won)
18th Woods Hole Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Fifteen Minutes of Fame Film Festival (Palm Bay, Florida)
NewFilmmakers (New York) -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Short Cuts Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Flickerings Film Showcase -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Portobello Film Festival (London, UK) -- Official Selection (Nominated)
FD4W International Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
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Director
Yvette Farmer
