![]() ![]() “I can’t remember if I learned them or not.” “I was probably too busy reading my lines,” he says. Not that the novelty of this production fazed him whatsoever. He talks a lot about his admiration for Matthew and Tori (“They’re thoroughgoing filmmakers”) and wafts his own iPhone at the webcam to underline his amazement at the ease with which Infinitum was made. See what you think.’”īy all accounts, McKellen didn’t take much persuading to be involved. I had a brilliant job of just reading scripts. “Then I ended up working as his assistant. “Years ago, when I was much younger as an actor, I lived around the corner from Ian and would just bump into him,” he says. When the time came to cast a talking head for exposition, Matthew turned to an old neighbour. We ended up breaking one of them trying to recentre it with a whole load of croc clips.” “I had my little Rode mic for sound, but its receiver had to be attached to the iPhone, which then knocked the gimbal’s counterbalance completely off. “It was hugely challenging,” says Tori Butler-Hart, who cowrote, produced and stars in the film. While this is by no means the first movie to be created with Apple’s smartphone (the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee and Michel Gondry have all testified as to the tech’s utility in recent years), Covid restrictions enforced an even more DIY ethos upon the shoot. Shooting with just an iPhone on a gimbal took another month across a few secure locations, including his own home building and an abandoned Wroxton Abbey in north Oxfordshire. In the case of Infinitum, its script came together in the space of four weeks after director Matthew Butler-Hart was sparked into life by an Edgar Wright tweet encouraging London’s indie filmmakers to make the most of lockdown’s empty streets. ![]()
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