Severance - from diegetic pictures 

'Standing against the monoform.'

 A nameless man arrives at a seedy bar to track down his estranged wife Mary, only to find he is not alone in searching for her. 

Inspired by an obsession with the cinema of Robert Bresson and David Lynch, filtered through a high-contrast Noir dream, this is a world where everyday objects (a pencil, some cards, a drinking glass, a kitchen knife) hold all the promise, power and threat of fetish items. Where nothing and no one can be trusted, not even by themselves. Where longing for something you cannot name and clinging to an identity that doesn't quite fit is the order of the day. Frightening, absurd, lonely, playful, violent, funny and monochrome - just like life.

Anxiety turns to violence as easily as the turning of a card.

"Shot in pitiless monochrome, and evoking everyone from Bresson to Jarmusch and Lynch, this effortlessly stylish Noir is as taut as piano wire and chilly as a shiv. An alienated anxiety dream that grips with every shadow-dappled frame. Director Jamie Lynch is one to watch." - Ali Catterall Co-Director of  'Scala!!! - Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits.'/ Author of 'Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties.'

Behind the scenes at Goot Studios, London    Photographs by Nigel Bunyan