Award Winning Documentary
I’M PLEASED TO PRESENT Silhouette Secrets. Sit back, relax and put the film on full screen. Allow me to take you on a journey deep into the past of my shadowy art: from Mays Barn, via Llandudno and New York to an Audi showroom in Texas. See what happened when I dared to challenge a world speed-cutting record!
You can also own your own copy by buying a DVD or blu-ray copy of Silhouette Secrets
The Making of Silhouette Secrets
Making the film was an adventure, an example of my scissors taking me to place I’d never otherwise have gone. Naturally I wrote plenty about it as we went along, which you can read in this series of blog posts:
Will anybody fund a silhouette documentary film?
WHEN I FIRST DISCOVERED the art of silhouette it seemed like a tiny corner in the world of art, unloved by the fine-art establishment. Back then, the thought of a silhouette documentary was hard to…
First attempts at filming
I’M EXITED to report we’ve at last started filming Silhouette Secrets. We filmed this interview and “how to cut a silhouette” sequence in front of my wall of silhouette duplicate albums. It is unlikely to…
Free Silhouettes and other silly ideas
FREE SILHOUETTES! I begin this year in a state of high excitement. We have started filming “Silhouette Secrets” in earnest. This is my first foray into the world of film (apart from occasional TV appearances: Blue…
Digital Selfies
AS OUR INDIEGOGO campaign enters it’s final week I’m posting the promised update… and a request for a tweet! Tomorrow will be Silhouette Secrets’ Twitter day, and your chance to win a digital selfie. Silhouette Secrets’…
The Oxford Shark
https://vimeo.com/154254524 Silhouette Snippets: Cutting the Oxford Shark (02:18) DURING FILMING of Silhouette Secrets in February 2014 we were unexpectedly let down by an interviewee in London. We found ourselves, camera crew in tow, with nothing to…
Does ‘One’ in Houston mean ‘Go’?
THERE SEEMS to be some ambiguity over the silhouette speed-cutting world record. The main item on our 2014 US agenda was a trip to Houston to meet the world’s fastest silhouette artist: Cindi Harwood Rose….
Tales of a Wayside Inn
https://vimeo.com/154260579 Charles talks about an August Edouart silhouette AFTER VISITING HOUSTON the Silhouette Secrets film crew were invited to a lunch by SCONE. We met “Silhouette Cutters of New England” at the Wayside Inn, near…
Arrest of an Artist
https://vimeo.com/136866382 WHILE IN AMERICA last year, filming for the documentary ‘Silhouette Secrets’, we visited Philadelphia to study a 200-year-old automatic silhouette-making machine. On the way my mind lapsed and I found myself driving on the wrong…
The Final Cut
THE FILM IS OUT! I seem to have spent most of my time this summer cooped up in the editing room with Andi, making the final cut of Silhouette Secrets. Silhouette Secrets is a one-hour documentary film in which…
First festival successes
SILHOUETTE SECRETS seems off to a flying start. We took part in two film festivals towards the end of 2015 and have applied for many more this year. The first two festivals were the Marbella International Film Festival, where…
Dai Vernon and the Paul Daniels cameo
MY FILM Silhouette Secrets includes a cameo appearance by Paul Daniels. This interview – our Paul Daniels cameo – was a late addition. We were looking for a magician to talk about Dai Vernon, the…
Harry Oakley’s Trench Life in Silhouette
AFTER WATCHING Silhouette Secrets, recently launched on Amazon, people often ask: what sparked my interest in silhouettes? It isn’t such an easy question to answer. However, my mind often returns to this silhouette, which has…
Awards & Accolades
Silhouette Secrets surprised us with the number of festivals and awards it gathered in the first year after launching.
