Daniel Saul Britain
National Lottery
A night watchman obsesses over the lottery hoping to escape the reality of what was once his dream.
Sitting alone in the night as a watchman, Henry Kelly (the artist's cousin) is angry and sad about a lot of things - his dream of being in England came true as he was finally given permission to settle, but London was a shock and not the dream he cherished... he now hopes to win the lottery one day to go back to Calcutta.
- Camera, Edit & Direction:
- Daniel Saul
Daniel Saul
Daniel Saul
Daniel is a painter turned filmmaker, directing and producing unusual hybrid films for television, cinemas, galleries and festivals nationally and internationally. At the core of his practice is a devotion to storytelling, portraiture through personal biographies and a fascination with the ever-shifting complexity of cultural dynamics.
Recent projects have included a commission for the ACE/Channel4 scheme Animate‚ The Nuclear Train‚ a complex and layered film telling the story of a family living with the train that carries nuclear waste through London. In 2006 Daniel co-devised Priceless with motiroti; a large scale participatory arts project involving the major institutions in South Kensington’s Exhibition Road. As part of this project Daniel directed nine site-specific films. The project was launched at the Serpentine Gallery and each film, in addition to being installed inside the museums, was projected on the outside of the Natural History Museum. In 2004 Daniel did a three month ACE/Visiting residency in Taipei resulting in several documentary and visual arts projects. He is currently developing a new project entitled Bedlam‚ from ideas formed in Taiwan.