Reshoot Productions is the London-based team of writer and co-director Samuel Pothier, from South Africa, and cinematographer and co-director Husam Taha, from Palestine. Our shorts include two mockumentaries, a silent romance and two other comedies. In 2023 we released a 50th anniversary music video for Jack Kittel’s cult country hit ‘Psycho’ in collaboration with Belt Records, which won Best Music Video at the 2024 UK Film Festival. Our silent feature Away with Words will be released in spring 2025.
Our first feature, a silent romantic comedy-drama – and sci-fi action-adventure dark fantasy epic – is coming this year! Away with Words follows an intertitle painter with a poor grasp of reality in his struggle to fulfil the goals of two lives: the one in his head, and the one in his heart. Watch the trailer here, featuring films-within-films, mad scientists, stop motion, terrifying disease, imaginary friends – and true love.
Our 50th anniversary music video for Jack Kittel’s ‘Psycho’ won the award at the Soho Hotel Cinema! We attended the screening on 21 November at the Close-Up Cinema in Shoreditch, where all the music videos in competition were screened, and had a Q&A with Murray Woodfield, the festival director.
Our first feature is coming soon! Watch the teaser for Away with Words, a silent romantic comedy-drama, here.
The next stage of silent movie production begins! We’ll have more on this later, but shooting in South Africa will include locations in the Cape Peninsula, the Orange River and (in the photo) the ghost town of Putsonderwater in the Northern Cape. Our director of photography in South Africa is Eamonn Naidoo, who shot Rigor Mortis in 2021.
Away with Words will be the first feature from Reshoot Productions. A silent romantic comedy-drama set in 1929, the story follows a title writer who lives a vicarious life through his projector and a former Paramount poster artist who might just coax him into the real world. Filming started at Bickersteth House in the Holland Park district of London. More about the film will be coming soon. Have a look at the gallery!
‘With a DIY, monochromatic aesthetic, it’s a theatrical, eccentric journey into unearthly waters, and a wonderfully inventive interpretation of the track,’ according to Promonews. See the full piece here, or watch the music video right here on this site!
Nearly six months after conception, we’ve finally finished our music video for Jack Kittel’s recording of ‘Psycho,’ the murder ballad by Leon Payne! Thanks to the producer, Jay Mihelich of Belt Records, for his co-operation in the making of the video. You can watch it here, and read a biography of Jack Kittel, an unsung hero of country music, here.
Did you ever wonder how the 20th century went so badly wrong? How European fascism brought London to its knees in the Second World War? How an insidious counterculture born in the capital nearly ripped the fabric of civilisation apart a generation later? How one of the city’s few beacons of hope was snuffed out a generation after that with the death of Princess Diana? You might think the seeds of such sprawling calamity were sown long ago, but true evil transcends time: these paths of destruction all lead to 31 July 1992 and the birth of Alan Berman. See the full account of this unspeakable tragedy here.
Watch the five-minute science fiction travelogue about Oxford, martyrs, Harry Potter and very short-term time travel here.
We made a half-hour mockumentary about documentary distribution with the staff of Journeyman Pictures, a real documentary distributor, as the cast. See the result here.
The first Reshoot production! In a way. This is a music video for the Commodores’ 1985 soul hit ‘Nightshift.’ We combined original footage with some wonderful NASA archive material for a big split-screen adventure – see what that looks like here.
‘This simple period piece is quite fantastically delivered in silence, in style with the era the film is set in,’ according to the 2022 Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards. Rigor Mortis received nominations for Best Director and Best Music – the latter thanks to Yusuke Tsutsumi and his simple, very beautiful solo piano score. See the Monkey Bread Tree post here, and watch Rigor Mortis here.
We shot Rigor Mortis, a five-minute silent short about a man carrying his wife’s corpse across the wilderness to an ancestral burial ground, with Eamonn Naidoo in the Western Cape of South Africa before the founding of Reshoot Productions. But Eamonn joined the Reshoot team a few years later when he served as director of photography for the South African portion of our silent feature Away with Words, some of which was shot in the same locations as this, our first silent venture. Some of the narrative DNA of Rigor Mortis also found its way into Away with Words, making this short a sort of very, very early trailer for the feature. Watch it here.
