AN EIGHTH OF HIM
2023 · 11m · UK
Directed by Levi Eddie Aluede
Tones: contemplative, tender
Over a year, a south London drug dealer forms a tender connection with a client within the confines of his car.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Drug dealer and client forming a tender connection inside a car over a year — the car-as-stage limit is the kind of constraint that produces actual cinema. Quiet bet.
Aluede unfolding an entire year's tender relationship inside a dealer's car — the vehicle as sanctuary and stage — is the Moonlight-Fish Tank lineage at its formally tightest, and the Eddie Aluede / Samson Ajewole writing partnership through BFI Network is exactly where contemporary Black British cinema is being made.
11:07 BFI Network and Elysium Pictures funded — the car as singular setting forces the entire intimacy arc through blocking inside one vehicle, which is exactly the constraint that produces meaningful South London drama. Director Levi Eddie Aluede working from Samson Ajewole's script.
Festivals
- Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
- Leeds International Film Festival 2023