A Day in May - B. V. Leck
5 mins, HD, direct animation, 2024.
B. V. Leck is the alter-ego filmmaking persona of myself and Leon Billberbeck.
The Last Dreamer, created in collaboration between George Selley and Leon Billerbeck, presents a quasi post-apocalyptic vision, emerging during a visit to Frioul, an island off the coast of Marseille, whose clifftop abandoned military bunkers sparked an imagined future where a group of young people inhabit the island with no memory of what came before.
In this imagined world, they wait - for an arrival, a threat, a happening that never comes - clinging to shifting myths and improvised rituals to explain their existence. The graffiti that scars the concrete becomes scripture; bunkers are temples; seagulls are restless omens, time stretches, weather turns, the sun sinks. Nothing happens but the passing of days.
Our collaborative process is rooted in dialogue between mediums: one of us offers image, the other responds in sound, allowing the film to unfold as a poetic exchange of intuition and tension - a freeing of our usual methods of creation. The Last Dreamer explores the strange futures that can emerge when history dissolves, when our connection to the past is lost, and asks what connection our present has to this concept.