Rough Cut

Rough Cut the debut feature from Londonbased artist Jamie Shovlin explores the remaking of an exploitation film that never was At its dark heart is Hiker Meat an archetypal 1970s slasher movie imagined by Shovlin complete with hitchhiking heroine charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one This tantalising filmwithinafilm serves to both deconstruct and pay affectionate homage to the oftenmaligned exploitation style Having created a full screenplay score and cutandpaste prototype for Hiker Meat Shovlin filmed key sections and a full trailer in an intense shoot in the Lake District in summer 2013 Rough Cut contrasts these remade sequences with onset footage and insights into the development of Hiker Meats script soundtrack and design to create a compelling mashup of selfreferencing processes behindthescenes viewpoints and timehonoured slasher tropes