The Lost Weekend (FILM-NOIR)

The Lost Weekend is a reimagining of 1945

American film, based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel. Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst, but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

Working with mentor Sarah Warren, I have set this project in Bristol in the 1960's, identifying around 10 different locations in Bristol for this film. The centre of the design is the apartment, which plays an important location for many scenes in the story. The key was achieving continuity in design through all the scenes by using curved -post modern interior furniture and repetitive patterns on the wall/flooring in all the locations. Most of the exterior locations were carefully identified to maintain the Georgian-Victorian era visual language.