Director's Works
Barbour, The New Country Code Seb Gillmore
Seb Gillmore is a director working across narrative, documentary, and branded film. His work is intimate, stylised, and symbolic - exploring identity, creation, and transformation through a distinctly visual lens.
Rooted in myth and memory, his films often look for echoes of the past within the present, tracing the quiet cycles that define human experience. His work has been recognised internationally, with features in Director’s Library, FRAMESET, Harper’s Bazaar Italia, and SHOWstudio, and nominations at the Berlin Commercial Awards, HollyShorts, Stockholm Film Festival, and London’s International Film Gala.
Shooting on 16mm in a studio produces an interesting result. Our DP, Luke Dryden and I, wanted to craft a visual style that felt a part of both past and present. Everything we did with this film was about the relationship between those two periods. But with a tight schedule (that we shared with stills), it was crucial for us to minimise our shot list to the bare essentials and I’m so glad we did.
The film is effectively a guide to the Countryside code, and therefore in style and pacing, it needed to feel as clear as possible. What our team helped craft was a playful and (very) British step into the quirk and individuality that Barbour looks encourage, our score and set helping us hold on to its well known heritage.
