Video stills from The Prodigal Boy, video drama recorded on DVCPRO, 27 minutes.

Part 1, ‘The end’: Hammer aesthetics, loneliness, sterile love of beauty, bankrupt masculinity. Part 2, ‘A beginning’: a boy goes from his mundane home to a meditative woodland transcendence and back

Based on a part of
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria RILKE,
a present from HRVOJE HORVATIC

Dead man
Matt Eggleton

Man in chair
Michael Oliva

Woman in white
Emmanuelle Fournier

Malte
Luciano Romano

Mother
Roberta Romano

Family
Jules Davison
Darren Ormandy
Erica Whyman

Chaperone
Roberta Romano

Driver
Lorne Stockman

Location assistant
Darren Ormandy

Focus
Hannah Marshall

Dolly grip, gaffer & location sound recording
Dan Jones

Sound & music
Michael Oliva

Post-production consultant
Matt Platt

Luciano Romano is represented by
Little Wotsitz Children’s Talent Agency

Equipment hire
London Electronic Arts, London Film-makers’ Co-op

Editing facilities
Real to Reel Productions

Thanks to
Ian Johnson, Joe Marshall, Klaus Fried, Martin Preston, Paul Goodey, Wimbledon Common and everyone at 194 Evering Road

Everything else
Julian Richards