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Boys' artistic collaboration is winning rave reviews
Picture by Rob Branigan
Award winning film-maker Terry Cheung didn't have far to look when finding musicians for his £5,000 film commission. He just brought in his friends from his music and art classes at the Boys’ School. Now the young men's artistic collaboration is winning rave reviews and is being watched by hundreds of film lovers during Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Festival.
Last year Terry won a £5,000 film commission from FACT for his avantgarde films ‘The Detention’ and ‘Airborne Freerunner’ and over the last six months he has been writing, planning and shooting his new work Billed as ‘Alice in Wonderland’ meets ‘The Matrix’, his 20 minute short film ‘Wild’ is a sci fi action thriller about a man who creates a machine which brings various viruses into a physical form which he then has to fight in a surreal dream sequence.
For the score he turned to his friends and fellow young artists Arthur McBain and Yasin Sheikh who forming the gigging rap duo YBG.
Terry said: "Every element of film making is important and the music sets the tone and mood. It was great to work with two friends and share ideas."
Yasin and Arthur have been mixing acoustic guitar since winning the Merchants’ Has Got Talent charity fundraiser last November and already they are becoming regulars on the Liverpool’s art house scene.
They said: "It was fantastic to write for a specific project, take a brief but also share ideas. We learned so much from the experience and could see how Terry had won this prestige prize. His attention to detail is phenomenal."
Terry wants to go to film school in Southern California, while Arthur wants to study Music and Yasin hopes to become a psychiatrist.
You can seen YBG at the The Bar Fly on June 22. To see more of the young men's work go to www.myspace.com/ybguk <http://www.myspace.com/ybguk> and www.youtube.com/evilstuff <http://www.youtube.com/evilstuff
