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Title: RELAX

Reference number: 8046

Date: 1994

Director: d. Hannah Robinson

Sponsor: Napier University, STV, The Scottish Film Council, The Shepley-Shepley Trust

Producer: Oscar van Heek

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.40 mins

Description: A couple on board a busy train start kissing and become engaged in full sex before their fellow passengers who ignore them. However, when the couple smoke a post-coital cigarette, they call a guard. The film challenges accepted conventions of morality, advertising and sex. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/515351, last accessed 3/2/2010]

See also ref. 8081 for raw interview footage with Hannah Robinson about this film. Shown on Channel Four 29/09/1994 under the "First Frame" banner - an evening of award-winning student films. Also shown on Channel Four 09/11/1995 as part of the "Love Hurts" evening - an evening of themed short films under overall season THE SHOOTING GALLERY.

First Reels - a joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen (and its predecessor body the Scottish Film Council) and Scottish Television. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from £50 to £2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council held in paper archives]

Credits: The Lovers Mairi Wallace and Ali de Souza
The Career Girl Claire Grogan
The New Man Colin McLaren
The Public School Boy Graham McInnes
The Granny Dolina MacLennan
The Reader Morag MacKinnon
The Guard Paul Cleasby

w. Hannah Robinson
lighting camera Peter Anderson
production design and construction Tom Sayer and Mike Gunn
film ed. Gary Scott
sd. Bob McDougall
m. Haftor Medboe
exec. p. Lila Rawlings
1st ass. d. Mercedes Richardson
p. man. Nick Kennedy
camera ass. Kenneth Simpson
clapper / loader Sam Pilling
lighting ass. Ian Riddick
grip Lachlan MacKinnon
continuity Jonathan Farmer
sd. ass. Robert Anderson
spark Neil Handyman
projectionist Stan Treasurer
2nd ass. d. Beverley Syme
3rd ass. d. Juliet Knight
set construction ass. Robert Anderson and Dave Arrowsmith
costume designers Sarah Lawrence and Alison Thompson
make-up Kathleen MacKintosh
stills Jo Roberts
catering Rochana Bates, Lorraine Collier
violin Arianne Todes
recorded and mixed Chamber Studios by Adrian Powers
ass. ed. Jonathan Farmer, Tim Clayton
post-sync recording Bill Goodbrand
dubbing mixer Peter Jeffries

Special thanks to Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway and all its staff, British Airways, The Rutland Hotel Edinburgh, BBC Wales

Thanks to Edinburgh District Council, Auto-Contracts Glasgow, Alpha Scaffolding, Alaska Freeze, Lowland Telecom Ltd, Edinburgh Hire Centre, Lewis Upholstery Edinburgh, Scobie Mackintosh [... et al ...]

Produced with financial assistance from Napier University, STV, The Scottish Film Council, The Shepley-Shepley Trust