Aphrodite's Farm

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT-Adam Strange

“Uncle Remus perhaps summed it up best when he reminisced to Brer Rabbit:  ‘’Twas a time when men were more like critters, and critters more like men, and some say things was better that way.’

I grew up in a country valley amongst animals, hills, rivers and forests. I owned a dog,a horse and a saddle before my first motorbike or car. Fast forward to 2002: I am now a film maker, on a quest of my own. I’ve been searching far and wide for a suitable short film script for several years. Nothing I read really hooks me for long, nor awakens in me any of the requisite passion for such an undertaking. Until the day in Spring that is, when Aphrodite’s Farm appears on my desk. Unlike many of the more ‘serious’ scripts that I’d read, this is warm, airy and alive. Close to nature, it pulses with the rise and set of the sun, the march of the seasons, life, love, birth and death. I love the characters, the textures, the tone. I imagine a film that appears crafted from the 1930s in which it is set. It is a wonderfully original yarn, yet, like all myths or fables, it is also subconsciously familiar somehow. A life affirming script, Aphrodite’s Farm is a refreshing breath of air in a period when so much of what we see seems crafted primarily to shock and traumatize. The Gods only know we can all do with a little more magic and optimism in our troubled world.”.