BENEATH THE CLOCKTOWER (2018)
44 min.
UK
English Language
Director: Harvey Marcus
Producer: Harvey Marcus
BENEATH THE CLOCKTOWER is a candid, heart-warming and often funny documentary about the longest-serving independent stores, businesses and restaurants in the North London enclave of Crouch End. This is not an action movie, but it is a film about survival, struggle and success. And a Bob Dylan mystery...
Beneath The Clocktower is a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Harvey Marcus which explores the world of Crouch End’s longest serving small businesses, and the big characters behind them. This is not an action movie but it is a warm, politically relevant and often funny documentary about struggle, survival and success. Harvey Marcus’s film takes a candid and poignant look at some of the longest serving independent businesses on the Crouch End high street. Faced by the threat of rising costs, big business and an ever-changing world, Marcus unearths stories of struggle, survival and success told by the often overlooked characters who’ve served Crouch Enders for years, and have come to symbolise the area’s unique spirit and sense of community. - Hornsey Historical Society
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Harvey Marcus is an award-winning London-based writer turned self-taught filmmaker, who first picked up a camera five years ago with his solo production, 'Rock 'n' Roll Me When I'm Dead' - the warm and funny story of a graffiti artist from Leeds returning to the scene after a gap of two decades, which was selected Leeds International Film Festival. After a long career in magazines - working for the likes of Elle, Nippon Vogue and marie claire - Marcus moved in to film in 2013, writing and co-directing the short documentary, 'Her Majesty' - the story of Britain's foremost look-a-like Queen and fiercest rival (London Short Film Festival 2014) and 'Girl On The Northern Line' - a drama about a Eastern European immigrant (Selected for St Tropez International 'Best Film' and 'Jury Award' 2015.) In 2016 his short drama, 'Then There Were Three (a perverted love story)', starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Tom Meeten, was selected for the Los Angeles Short Film festival, while his short feature-length documentary, Beneath The Clocktower - the candid tale of a North London's high street and its battle for independence, survival and a Bob Dylan mystery, enjoyed a six month run at Crouch End's ArtHouse Cinema in 2018. He is currently filming two feature length projects: 'By Any Other Name' - an experimental psychological sci-fi black comedy drama set in the murky world of bio-tech global corporations, and 'After The Revolution' - a documentary about a family of royal decent who escaped the Iranian Revolution of 1979 to set up a print shop in London suburbia. 'Red Rabbit, Green Gorilla', the feature film based on the short, 'Then There Were Three (a perverted love story) is currently in development.
THEN THERE WERE THREE (2016)
19 min.
UK
English Language
Director: Harvey Marcus
Writer: Harvey Marcus
Stars: Jessica Barker-Wren, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Tom Meeten
Sexual mores, female identity and suburban hanky panky collide in the dark comedy, Then There Were Three - a twisted tale of a couple celebrating the anniversary of their affair with a threesome.