Created by award-winning Director Tom Wakeling, Pattern serves as an abstract and deeply personal visual metaphor, revealing a kaleidoscopic portrait of obsessive thought cycles.
"I wanted to make a film about the feeling of being totally consumed by one thought. A thought that endlessly repeats, that spirals out of control until there’s nothing of you left."
- Tom Wakeling
Shot on the Jurassic Coast in 16mm, the film features a pioneering, in-camera lighting technique whereby a single beam is stacked backwards in time. No CGI was used in its creation whatsoever.
The hypnotic score is formed around granular manipulations of the voice. Waves of undulating vocal textures form a restless ambience from which subsonic pulses of white noise emerge, infinitely building and slowly spiralling into overwhelm.