Director Ian Bourn
Writer Ian Bourn
Lighting & Camera Patrick Duval
Digital Effects Asher Edwards, Max Horton
Compositor Daniel Saul
Sound Designer Graeme Miller

What do YOU see in a plate of pie and mash?

In this world of marble tables, etched glass and tiles the humble London dish of pie, mashed potato and thick green liquor acts as a catalyst for excursions into memory, fantasy or to places best forgotten. Black White & Green is a meditation on the pie and mash aesthetic, an exploration of the terrain and a revelation of what wriggles just below the surface.

In the setting of a traditional London eel and pie house, solitary diners ponder their steaming dinners, each glimpsing a personal landscape within the food on the plate. Black, White & Green is a meditation on the aesthetics of pie, mash and green liquor, an exploration of the terrain and a revelation of what wriggles just below the surface.

A combination of live action, shot on DigiBeta, and digitally recreated 3D space.

Black, White & Green is a mixture of live action and computer-generated imagery, with real people and food shot against bluescreen and composited into an imaginary restaurant environment created in a 3D graphics program. The close-up food shots were done using a borescope lens and the ‘animation’ of the food was in fact filmed ‘live’ and moved by means of (off screen) forks and spoons.

The voiceover narration is that of the author (Ian Bourn), with contributions by the participating actors, who were responding to images of pie and mash dinners and asked to describe what these images suggested to them. The sound recordings and the overall sound design was devised by sound artist Graeme Miller.

Director Ian Bourn
Writer Ian Bourn

Players:
John Ellis
Dave Bourn
Eileen Bourn
Elaine McIntyre
Yoshimi Kihara
Alan Freedman

Lighting & Camera Patrick Duval
Digital Effects Asher Edwards & Max Horton
Compositor Daniel Saul
Sound Designer Graeme Miller