Film Screenings: Steve Downey

Steve Downey is a visual artist, multi-award-winning filmmaker, and writer.

This film screening coincides with a major exhibition of Steve's work at the Minories, entitled An Explosion in Colour: The Americas

Steve will be presenting a screening of six of his short films, as follows:

JUST BEFORE DAWN

This 17-minute film was made in 1969 as the final film of Steve's 2-year course at the London Film School in Covent Garden, London. In his last year he specialised in Directing Actors and wrote a thesis about this based on his interpretation of the Stanislavski technique. The concept of "Just Before Dawn" came from his producer, Ugo Mariotti, who had also produced his previous film "Dream Palace". [Ugo later went on to produce the renowned feature film "Don't Look Now" with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.] The script, which Steve wrote, went through many phases and was highly influenced by his lead actor, Stefan Kalipha. Stefan had already starred in a feature film and went on to achieve a long and successful film and TV career, including acting as a Bond Villain and parts in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the Prime Suspect TV series.