I still remember this shoot with Joanna Godwin-Seidl, who directed and produced The Flick. We found a small cinema that generously let us work there free of charge, and spent the day building an image around the life of the theatre after the audience has gone home.
The play follows three underpaid cinema employees whose friendship, resentment and small acts of defiance unfold between screenings. I wanted the poster to hold that in-between time: the popcorn, discarded cup and empty rows become traces of people and little stories that have just happened.
One of the main characters is almost hidden behind a seat, present but easy to miss. That small human detail shifts the image away from a simple cinema poster and toward the quieter world where the play takes place.
