'The Burning' is a short film created to investigate the practices of historical filmmaking, as part of the practice-as-research that I am undertaking for my work on 'modes of creative practice' in the work of feature film directors.
As a creative exercise, the film is a response to the glamourised portrayal of Tudor England in recent film and television, and experiments with the short film as a historical allegory to comment on Britain in 2016.
This film was additionally a project that looked at the integration of practice-as-research and teaching.
The sound design for the film, by Charis Coke, experimented with issues of genre and authenticity in the creation of sound for historical film.