We’re making a feature – watch the teaser here!
Away with Words is a silent romantic comedy-drama – and historical science fiction action-adventure epic – set in 1930.
It takes place in the slums and mansions of London, in the perilous laboratories of electricity-obsessed scientists, and in the deserts and ghost towns of a distant wasteland.
The production uses intertitles, films-within-films, animation and archive performances from silent-era icons Louise Brooks and Wallace Beery.
The modern-day cast includes Sam Pothier as Abel Lively, an impoverished would-be scenario writer with a tenuous grip on reality...
... and Jessica Still as Penelope Peabody, a former Paramount poster artist with a tenuous grip on her finances.
Separately and together – then separately, then together – Abel and Penelope face an eclectic range of foes...
... from murderous cowboys to vengeful gangsters...
... from writer’s block to dwindling paint supplies...
... from acquisitive utility companies to a draconian judiciary...
... from the chains of the past to a paralytic fear of the future.
Reshoot Productions is the London-based team of writer and co-director Sam 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 1973 cult country hit ‘Psycho,’ in collaboration with Belt Records.
Our silent feature Away with Words will be released in 2025.
