The Way of All Flesh

A man digs himself further and further into a hole.

This is a film about regret, desperation and inevitability. The digging of a giant hole is a visual metaphor for the futile attempt to avoid fate. I wanted to show how the finality of death is something that cannot be bargained with. Only through acceptance can we gain any sort of control, and even then there may be others who have more control than us.

Writer/Director: Prosper Unger-Hamilton @prosper99999
Producer: Oscar Lewis @oscar_wyndham_lewis
Talent: Ruaridh Aldington @ruaridhald
Production Company: Proxy @pro.xy.media
DOP: Kaas Aziz @kaasam_aziz
Score: Will Gardner @willgrdnr
Editor: Prosper Unger-Hamilton
Vfx: Proxy
Gaffer: Lee Vincent Grubb
Violin: Gus Unger-Hamilton
Colour: Tom Kingdom
Sound design: Fresh Crisis @flesh_crisis
Script Supervisor: Alice Dore @alicedore94
Art Director: Amal Crossing @amalcrossing
Stylist: Felix Gabriel
Special thanks: North Norfolk District Council @northnorfolkdc
Special thanks: Guillerm G Peeters @eterna_x
Special thanks: Button Productions

The Way of All Flesh was inspired by a sequence from the short story Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad by M. R. James. A BBC adaptation was shot in 1968 on the lonely beaches of the East English Coast. To shoot our piece we returned to the same beach, both as an homage to the 1968 work and as a way to bring James’ work into a new era.