Rupert Clague

Clague has worked on films and documentaries all over the world, including The World According to Jeff Goldblum for Disney+, The Culture Show and The Secret Life of Books for the BBC, Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father[1] and Sunderland 'Til I Die for Netflix. He also runs his own production company, Handsome Beast.[2]

In May 2018, he joined Director Werner Herzog in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest for a filmmaking expedition with Black Factory Cinema. Under Herzog's guidance, Rupert produced, directed, shot, and edited Jacob's Ladder while in the jungle.[3]

In November 2018, with support from Shure, Rupert directed Sounds of the Sunset with adventurer Leon McCarron, a film about the Sunset Limited train that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California in the United States.[4]

In April 2020, he launched Tell Me in collaboration with a group of international filmmakers. Setting up a series of phone voicemail boxes around the world, the collective encouraged people to call and leave messages with thoughts they were having during the COVID-19 pandemic. These calls will be brought together as a documentary film to create a unique portrait of humanity in isolation.[5]

In June 2020, Clague co-wrote and co-directed Pawsea (or: The Melancholy Ruminations of a Solitary French Bulldog) with Tom Gentle, an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée (Nausea) from the perspective of a dog. The film premiered at Flickerfest in 2021 and is currently on its festival run.[6] Clague previously collaborated with Gentle on an adaptation of Canadian author Alistair MacLeod's In the Fall from Island: The Collected Stories.[7][8][9]

In 2021, Clague Series Directed Change Accelerted, a twelve part series about Formula E for the BBC.[10]

He is currently directing his next feature film about the pianist and pioneer of Continuous Music Lubomyr Melnyk.

He is the author of 'For a single moment my voice is everything: David Berman's Actual Air and the experience of time stopping', a long form essay exploring the poetry of Silver Jews founder and poet David Berman. All proceeds were donated to MusiCares.[11]

His work has also appeared in No Film School and The Guardian.[12]