Creative direction · Documentary

Stoven documentary

Twenty four hours inside an artist's life.

Stoven seated in front of one of his large painted canvases, with the film title, and three smaller stills of the artist talking with his hands
Subject
Stoven, painter
Role
Director, cinematographer, editor
Scope led
Access, filming, structure, edit, release
Format
30:52, public on YouTube since 2020

A thirty minute documentary that follows the painter Stoven through one day: obsession, doubt, broken work and the cost of making something honest. I directed, filmed and edited it alone, which meant every decision about trust and distance was mine.

Documentary produced, directed, filmed and edited by Will Mosley. An independent project, not a paid engagement.

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Thirty minutes, fifty two seconds. Public since April 2020.

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Stoven in a green pullover in front of a wall-sized painting, with the film title in white capitals

01

Earn the room first.

The camera is allowed into a bedroom studio, a tennis court and a kitchen. That access was earned before the first frame, and the film protects it by never staging a moment.

Two interview stills: Stoven in a blue and green jacket in his studio, and Stoven explaining a painting with both hands

02

Let the subject argue, and let the day carry it.

Long stretches are direct address: confidence, money, what a finished painting feels like. I cut for his thinking, not for pace, and let the clock structure the film so narration never has to.

Up close

Hands, paint and time.

The canvas sits in soft focus behind the artist, a white star on green.
The canvas sits in soft focus behind the artist, a white star on green.
The title sits in tracked white capitals over the dark studio.
The title sits in tracked white capitals over the dark studio.
Stoven mid-sentence, the painting out of focus behind him.
Stoven mid-sentence, the painting out of focus behind him.

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