Never Knowing
Never Knowing - A Feature Film by Nicholas Holmes
A mysterious film that follows several different lives in genre bending chapters. Each story is connected by one girl, Olivia, who has a dark plan to achieve power in her community.
This was a big project to undertake, with only 6 months to film and edit, but with a lot of commitment the film was able to be made. It is a film unlike any other. The idea was to make something ambitious and groundbreaking in film that hadn’t been done before, so I came up with a story that was split into 6 chapters, each with a new genre (action, mystery, romance, comedy, horror and psychological), and each with new characters whose paths cross over in the 5th chapter where they all meet. I wanted to create some real mystery within the film and leave the audience on the edge of their seats. I wrote the script, and also directed and edited movie, as well as acting in it. This was a lot to take on, but it allowed me to fully capture my vision. It was completely filmed on an iPhone 11 Pro because I felt it is such a new and interesting approach to filmmaking, and groundbreaking in it’s own sense.
For the 3 year anniversary, a new remastered version of the film was released. This version had some new effects and was specially curated in black and white. This new cut gave the film a whole new darker feel, giving new insight.