PERFECT SKIN
UK, 2018, 110’
Regia / Direction: Kevin Chicken Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Kevin Chicken, Dusan Tolmac Produttore / Producer: Fiona Campbell, Cordelia Plunket Interpreti / Cast: Richard Brake, Natalia Kostrzewa, Jo Woodocock, Tom Ashley, Jemina Bennett, Oscar Bennett Fotografia / Cinematography: Jim Marks Musica / Music: Dan Bewick Scenografia / Set Designer: Charlie Whiteway Montaggio / Editor: Kevin Chicken Produzione / Producer Company: Kew Media Group Distribuzione / Distributor: Content Media Contatti / Contacts: www.perfectskinthemovie.com
Katia Matuschak, 18, is an Eastern European ex au-pair adrift in London. Homeless, having been fired by her demanding employer, she has been sleeping on various floors and sofas and has dropped out from her English course, now spending what money she can gather on booze dope and music.
At a local pub she meets Bob Reid, 39. Although a seemingly innocuous tattoo artist, his fetish for female skin begins a slow descent into madness after his marriage breaks down. After a drunken night out Katia accepts Bob’s offer to give her a lift home and as she wakes up hours later, tied up in a cage in his cellar, her horrific ordeal begins. Bob has a deep and twisted obsession to create his idea of perfect beauty. Katia is to be his canvas on which he will create his finest work, the masterpiece by which he will be remembered. As more and more of Katia’s body is covered in tattoos; piercings and body modification she and Bob form an uneasy alliance. Perfect Skin is a dark, psychological thriller about the making of a murderer; an intense, complex study of the relationship between a killer and his intended prey, which forces us to examine modern society’s obsession with beauty.
Born in Essex from St Martin’s School of Art, with an MA Fine Arts Filmmaking (Hons), one of six to be accepted onto the course. Kevin Chicken began working in commercials in post production and progressed to become a film editor working on many award-winning commercials, moving to directing commercials and music videos in 1995. Kevin wrote and directed his first short film, “Cold Feet” in 1997, which went on to win the British Short Film Festival in that year and the Best Short at the Savannah Film Festival in 1998. It was subsequently distributed with “Addicted to Love” in London and acquired by both Channel 4 and Film4.
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