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Produced, directed, photographed and edited by Michael Ham, this is a serious attempt to make a 35mm film for cinema showing by a young film-maker. 'Her Village Summer' is a love story set in the village of Foxearth, with town scenes taken in Sudbury, Suffolk. This is an ambitious film, very much in the style of television film-making in the 1960s. Unfortunately, Michael Ham died just before the film was to be premiered in a cinema in Sudbury, and it lay dormant for thirty years until the East Anglian Film Archive restored it, made it available for showings in the region, and issued it on video. Michael Ham was a keen film-maker from his teens, starting on 9.5mm film and graduating to 16mm. He worked at a film laboratory at first, and then moved to the BBC to work in film editing. However, his ambitions lay in film-making, and had he lived, he would have, no doubt, become one of the important film-makers of his time. |
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