Uki is a strange, isolated community of peasant farmers who live like Iron Age settlers and worship plastic toys. Descended from the survivors of a catastrophic global war, these simple but happy people live in complete ignorance of their history, hidden from them by a sinister ruling class, who regulate their lives completely. Until the day, Ret, a middle-aged mother, discovers an old book and begins to plan a revolution. The only problem is - are most people content with things the way they are?
Taking its lead from such screenwriters as Anthony Burgess and Nigel Kneale, Future Imperfect is a wry but unsettling tribute to British science fiction.
Now, I've been making films since I was 6 years old. I wouldn't put them all on my showreel. I contemplated leaving Future Imperfect off this site - there are things I've done since that I haven't bothered to include - but it's an interesting piece of work, and certainly an important one for me. Though very much in my past now, stylistically and otherwise, it was the first time I made a half hour film of broadcast standard. This was the first film for which I raised a proper budget, and the first in which I directed a fully professional cast and crew - all while I still had 'teen' in my age.
And besides, the idea of "re-imagining" 1960s and 70s British sci-fi was all but unheard of at the time, and now everybody's at it. Trailblazer, that's me.
Clips coming soon (probably).