MONKHEAD

They Just Use the Sky

THEY JUST USE THE SKY - Currently screening at festivals

WINNER! Best Short Film at Raindance Open Shorts June 2023

Two friends, a tree, and a third friend who won’t come down. A surreal short set in a dystopian post-pandemic future.

Monkhead's second short film, following their debut 'The Start of Nothing' which premiered at the BAFTA-qualifying London Short Film Festival and went on to screen at festivals across the world. Shot on ARRI Alexa, to be released in 2022.

DIRECTOR: Nico Pimparé
WRITER: Chloë Myerson

CAST: Joshua Jacob & Zaki Solosho

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessandro di Rosa
ASSISTANT CAMERA: Sorin Baluta
SOUND RECORDIST: Sam Saluci

EDITOR: Peter Owen Brook
SOUND DESIGN: Sam Saluci
COMPOSER: Robinson Senpauroca
MUSICIANS: Robinson Senpauroca & Lucie Paradis
COLOURIST: Benita Kiliute

PRODUCER: Chloë Myerson

The Jack of Hearts

APRIL 2020 - A MONKHEAD FILM LOCKDOWN CHALLENGE

Written, shot and edited during a period of ten days by three self-isolating housemates with an iPhone 7. This Deptford-Noir will send a shiver down your spine, right into your heart.

“I asked her what kind of juice this was.

‘Innocent’ she said.

‘Easy for a juice’”

DIRECTED BY Nico Pimparé
WRITTEN BY Chloë Myerson

FEATURING
Jack Nico Pimparé
Joey Chloë Myerson
Bobby Paul Bejjani

ALL CAMERAWORK BY THE CAST

ORIGINAL SCORE BY Thibault Matard

EDITED REMOTELY BY Louis Holder

The Start of Nothing

WORLD PREMIERE AT BAFTA-QUALIFYING LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - JANUARY 2021

WINNER! BEST UK SHORT at LOVE STORY FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON

SCREENED AT:
London Short Film Festival 2021 (Nominated for Best Low Budget short)
Sunday Shorts 2021
Lift-Off Sessions 2021
Lift-Off First Time Filmmaker 2021
Portobello Film Festival 2021
Semi-Finalist for Kino London 2021
Love Story London Film Festival 2022

A short film starring Florence Bell (Wolf Hall) and Kasper Klop (Par Dela).

During an ill-advised bout of self-improvement, Lucas pulls out his back at the gym. Stuck at home, he comes to rely completely on his housemate, Jessie. As they become closer, the two millennials battle with dangerous feelings for which they have no language.

DIRECTED BY Nico Pimparé

WRITTEN BY Chloë Myerson & Nico Pimparé

CAST Florence Bell/ Kasper Klop/ Roland Fischer-Vousden

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Catalina Velez

ASSISTANT CAMERA Kit Dambite

COMPOSER Thibault Matard

SOUND DESIGNER Emmanuel Palmer

SOUND RECORDISTS Emmanuel Palmer/ Sophie Stromback

STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY Hector Durham

The Interpretation of Dreams

NOVEMBER 2018

BUNKER THEATRE, LONDON BRIDGE

We brought together ten of the best artists working in London to collectively adapt Freud’s classic text using a full spectrum of media. A rapid response night unprecedented in its ambition – the company of actors, writers, video artists and musicians created a multi-sensory event that realised the experience of being ‘inside a mind’.

CREATED BY Chloë Myerson & Nico Pimparé

ADAPTED BY Chloë Myerson

DIRECTED BY Nico Pimparé

SOUND AND VIDEO Josh Field

PRODUCED BY Florence Bell

FEATURING WORK FROM Harry Denniston/ Alan Fielden/ Flora Marston/ Chloë Myerson/ Michaela Sisti

CAST Tom Blake/ Martha Owen/ Rachel Bradley/ Josh Jacob/ Grace Oxenham/ Orla Sanders/ Anna Hallas Smith/ Finlay Paul/ George Rennie

“This isn’t an easy watch – it’s thoroughly entertaining but concentration is needed, and even then, there will be moments of wondering what the hell is going on, but that seems wonderfully appropriate for The Interpretation of Dreams.” Fairypowered ★★★★

Tom Blake, Joshua Jacob & Martha Owen

Grace Oxenham, Anna Hallas Smith and Rachel Bradley

Photo: Kit Dambite

Hamlet et Le Spectre

SEPTEMBER 2018

PARIS

A bilingual site-specific Shakespeare piece presented in an abandoned house in Le Pecq.

ADAPTED BY Chloë Myerson

DIRECTED BY Nico Pimparé

CAST Sean Hardy/ Kasper Klop/ Thibault Matard/ Thomas Peterson/ Yves Krähenbühl

MUSIC BY Thibault Matard

PROJECTIONS BY jjjbon & Max-Louis

Le Pecq, the western suburbs of Paris. A big empty house. It’s the very end of a party. Only a handful of people left. Marcellus sits on his own, killing a bottle of whiskey and chain-smoking.

He hasn’t been feeling right recently, not since he first started seeing… it.

/Le Pecq, banlieue Ouest. Une grande maison vide. C’est la toute fin de la soirée. Il ne reste plus que les tous derniers fêtards. Marcellus s’asseoit, seul, une bouteille de whiskey à la main, une cigarette dans l’autre.

Depuis peu, il se sent mal à l’aise. Depuis… qu’il a commencé à le voir.

Thomas Peterson as Hamlet and Yves Krahenbühl as The Ghost

L-R: Thibault Matard, Sean Hardy, Thomas Peterson, Kasper Klop and Nico Pimparé in rehearsals

Music rehearsal led by composer Thibault Matard (left)

The audience ascends for the battlements scene

Rapt audience members watching Hamlet and Ghost on the battlements with projections by jjjbon and Max-Louis

Jules Cesar

NOVEMBER 2017

DAKAR, SENEGAL

Monkhead co-founder Nico Pimparé directed a mixed French and Wolof adaptation of Julius Caesar, developed and staged with Senegalese young adults from Guediawaye, one of Dakar’s most deprived neighbourhoods.

Based on Victor Hugo’s translation, with parts translated into Wolof by local participants. It included live rap and a site-specific element – actors representing ‘the crowd’ were dispersed through the festival’s mosh pit.

It was performed at Voice4Thought International Hip Hop festival as a response to political radicalisation in West Africa, and was supported by G-HipHop and high profile Senegalese rapper Fou Malade of Y’en a Marre.

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