Title Time for Tea

Production Date 2009

Release Date 2009

Cat No KT121003

Producer Magdalena Pniewska

Director Magdalena Pniewska

Actors Jonny Vercoutre

Script Magdalena Pniewska

Camera Magdalena Pniewska

Editor Magdalena Pniewska, Darren Courtney

Graphic Design logo-web.co.uk

Location Shoreditch, East London

'Time for Tea' invites the viewer to spend an ordinary day with Johnny in his house. His living room (which turns into his bedroom for the night), bathroom and kitchen are the spaces he will enter from the morning to the night. In theory, it sounds rather usual and ordinary, and not many people would have time these days to accept this invitation. However, it all changes when the viewer wakes up with a man who lives in different era than most people where the nostalgic sounds of 1940’s can be heard. In the film Johnny has a relaxing cup of tea made with care and attention to detail and shaves with an original old-fashioned razor. All the usual, day to day activities, turn into peculiar, mysterious events. It is even more incredible when the viewer realises, that these quiet activities happen in Shoreditch High Street which is a very busy and loud part of East London .

Filmmaker: "I wanted to make a film where my intention was not to develop the plot, but to create a piece of cinema that would be a “vehicle for intuition, speculation and discovery”. I wanted to portray the personality of an individual by depicting his everyday life in his homely, otherworldly environment and closed, particular community. Simultaneously, my aim was to draw attention to another dimension of the portrayal, which is a study of a person who is in a state of profound alienation from the world, unable to find balance between reality and the harmony for which this person longs".