'We shall not cease from exploration/
And the end of all our exploring/
Will be to arrive where we first started/
And know the place for the first time'.
(from 'Little Gidding' by T. S. Eliot)
NEWS!
Vainilla Chip was screened as part of the Official Selection to compete at the Bilbao International Short and Documentary Film Festival during November 2009. It has also been selected by the British Council for inclusion in a selection of British short films during 2009.
The Silent Accomplice has now entered the final stages of post-production. Following a test cinema screening during the first week of February 2010, we will be finishing off the film. A private preview will follow soon. Please come back for further news.
The entire short documentary set in Cuba entitled Vainilla Chip is now available for viewing.
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One Day Films Limited is an independent film production and distribution company based in the United Kingdom that currently mainly handles the cinematic work of writer and director, Erik Knudsen.
Set in rural and urban Britain, The Silent Accomplice is a story seen through the perspective of water flowing from a spring to the sea. This ever-present silent protagonist engages with people in often intimate moments in their lives, resulting in an intimate snapshot of contemporary Britain. Learn more...
Set in the small Cuban town of San Antonio de los Baños, Vainilla Chip tells the story of an ordinary day for an elderly ice cream maker, Javier Casanova, whose every day has become painfully pierced by an acute sense of longing for his deceased wife. Documentary, 17 minutes. Learn more...
Erik Knudsen directed the moving image components of Horse & Bamboo Theatre Company's evocative mask and puppet stage production, Veil. Two young women, two generations, two cultures. Veil, the most ambitious production in Horse & Bamboo's 30 year history, toured the UK in 2008 and will go on a second tour during 2009. Learn more...
A poetic film, mixing fiction and documentary, exploring the changing spiritual and material relationship the people of the Akim Abuakwa region of Ghana have with gold. 40 minutes, 2006. Learn more...
An intimate and intense story taking us into the alienation of two teenage twin girls caught between conflicting values and allegiances. Fiction, 86 minutes, 2006. Learn more...
Filmed in the grounds of the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television just outside Havana, which in the past was a slave plantation, this is an intimate documentary about the legacy of slavery in Cuba. 6 minutes, 2005. Learn more...
Set in Lodz, Poland, this is a moving documentary in which Andrzey Mellin gives an account of his relationship with his dog, which had died under mysterious circumstances. 11 minutes, 2004. Learn more...
A unique road movie following a man in crisis on an unusual journey across a contemporary British landscape. Fiction, 99 minutes, 2004. Learn more...
A revealing documentary about Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company's mask and puppet production, The Girl Who Cut Flowers. Documentary, 50 minutes, 2001. Learn more...
Sarah wanted to die, but didn't quite make it. She wanted to live, but didn't quite make it. A moving film about a young woman trapped in a persistent vegetative state. Fiction, 70 minutes, 1999. Learn more...
A creative documentary exploring the nature of spiritual realities in a secular society. Includes scenes with the spiritualist medium, Mavis Pettilla, at work. Documentary, 50 minutes, 1995. Learn more...
A personal exploration of what connects people and cultures across time, space and racial divide. A personal journey back to Ghana after 30 years for filmmaker Erik Knudsen. Documentary, 70 minutes, 1991. Learn more...