Tim Walker - 'The Lost Explorer'

 You may be more likely to recognise Tim Walker as the creator of Vogue shoots featuring white rabbits, Stately Homes covered in balloons or a tree covered in candy coloured cakes (as shown below), but for the past year he has been turning his unmistakably unique visions to film.  

        

He has been tipped off to be the next Tim Burton, offering a sinister edge to what would otherwise be innocent childish fantasies; but 'The Lost Explorer' will not be hitting the big screens, it is in fact entering the International Film Festival Circuit this year as a short film. 

          

In one of my internships this year, the company I was working for has been asked to advertise and market Walkers film, so I spent a great deal of time researching the short films that toured with the Festival this year (such as Cannes).

Below are the first images I have seen that show any indication of Walker's vision, and from only these few images, you can see what a visual masterpiece this is.

 

The story is about Evelyn, a young girl who finds an explorer living in a tent at the bottom of her garden, he is "dying of malaria and clutching a revolver" and he goes on to tell her stories of the "canary clouds" over the Atlantic. Walker says "it is a fairy tale with a gently shocking end" and a "lemon-curd-and-honey vision that just got darker".

He has brought this film together with the help of Robbie Ryan who worked on Andrea Arnold's 'Fish Tank' and Valerio Bonelli who worked on Ricky Gervais's 'Cemetry Junction'. This is going to be a piece of genius cinema and if your not lucky enough to see Mulberry's exclusive English Screening of the film at London Fashion Week, then your just going to have to wait until it hits the international circuit.