Simon Morice

About me:

Once upon a time, long ago and like most boys, I enjoyed a teen rite of passage at the moment I became the owner of my first car. My world expanded and, with my friends, I explored the limits of it and sometimes had the petrol to get back to the nest I was not quite ready to quit.

Just now, life for me is quite like rediscovering my first car in a barn. What is more, it's in surprisingly good condition and is very nearly roadworthy. Since it's also quite like I've not been driving it for a number of years the pleasure of doing so is also new again. All those things that I had thought gone, are back. And so bright that they burn the eyes.

Actually, this is simile and my Sunbeam Rapier Mk III has been a long time crushed. What it was turned into has probably been crushed too. But those lucky atoms and molecules which so adroitly avoided becoming a Hillman Minx still perform some Earthly function however diffuse they have become. And doubtless they retain the pride of having being part of a 60s icon.

Aye me!

What's really happened is that I have rediscovered my first career. The work I was drawn to when I was too young to believe that work should be anything other than what you want to do. Work eventually made too dull to do in a creative organisation where stifling monocular accountants won temporary custody. Assuredly the wrong king and so I left.

But now that work has been computerised. Inevitable technology has rendered it pervasively accessible. And what I dreamed of long ago as ideal self employment no longer needs a big lottery win to realise.

So once again I contemplate a world of journeys; all of which must be started in a state of disciplined ignorance. In this way it is possible to experience the deep satisfaction of finding out how things truly work. Then to pass on the thrills and the knowledge by making films about them.

A film is a story. And stories are what people have always turned to when the world gets too big. The world really is very big but ordinarily we don't notice because it's over the horizon of our own world, which is quite managably small and curved.

This is my story and it tells of how I plan to live happily ever after!

I am a film editor who got frozen in ice for more than a decade. I have been defrosted and given a Mac and a copy of Final Cut Studio. I do video production and post production in Southampton, Hampshire UK I have started to cut again...