“For me the idea of us emerging from our post-pandemic, domestic cocoons is such a universal thing. Those little moments and feelings that many people can relate to and were craving at the time of us shooting.”

Thomas James is an award-winning writer, director & artist originally hailing from Wolverhampton. He graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2010, winning The Times G100 Art & Design Graduate of the Year. His work often toys with notions of horror and the sublime, the poetic and the grotesque. With a keen sense of magical realism, the surreal and mind-bending trips into the unknown, often underpin his cinematic and refined aesthetic approach. In 2017 he won the UKMVA Indie video of the year for HoneyBlood - Ready for the Magic was nominated for the UKMVA Best Rock video, and was also the runner-up in the Homespun Yarns short film competition. In 2018 he was nominated for Best New Director of the Year at the UKMVAs. Earlier this year he was nominated for 3 British Arrows for his first ever commercial for Bolt. Later that year, he went on to direct commercials for Bell’s, Ballantine’s and Bloom & Wild. He runs his own creative studio; operating across multiple platforms. He has created films for a range of musicians, including Young Fathers, Paloma Faith, Bring Me The Horizon, Fat White Family, Sam Fender, Nothing But Thieves and Ghostpoet. He has also had narrative works commissioned by Jonas Akerlund and The Museum of Witchcraft. He has exhibited works across the UK, including shows at the V&A, and The Chopping Block Gallery, and most recently was asked to create a film for the Rebels exhibition at the Oxo Tower alongside Nick Knight & James Lavelle. He has guest lectured at St. Martins, Chelsea College of Art and UCA in film and visual culture.