So many interesting elements - but this is amazing

The idea that they made a documentary based on seeing him sat on his balcony every day looking grumpy, and wondering who on earth he was, is quite something.

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“Nick and I were thinking about a new project and I said: ‘This man seems interesting. Why don’t we talk to him?’ So we’re on the street shouting: ‘Hey. Who are you?’ After a while he said: ‘I was a professional soccer player when I was younger. Look it up.’ We were like: ‘OK, you crazy old man, I played soccer too.’

“Then we searched Tony Powell on our computers and, yes, he was a soccer player. We find photographs and, woah, there’s this man with beautiful long hair. It was initially this short film, a portrait of a motel manager running an abandoned building as he’s being evicted and then it became something else.

Posted By: norwaay, Mar 17, 11:54:02