In a world where decisions are made for the “greater good”, what happens when someone decides to take control? Tixeon is an independent short film which looks at one woman’s decision to change the system which has trapped her.  You can watch it now on Distrify here:

Tixeon was, is and always will be the very first Debasers filum.  It was shot over two long days for the cost of  an expensive iPod, one hundred pints of cheap cider or 5 months’ worth of veggie boxes (whichever suits your priorities best).   We love it like a child that was born too quickly and will always require our watchful eyes and guidance.  If you found it confusing, please email us and we’ll fill you in and stuff.

Tixeon has been selected, so far, in the following festivals:

Anonimul International Independent Film Festival  in Romania - the most remote film festival in the world -  where it won the Ovidiu Bose Pastina Award (Jury Prize) for short films.

Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland

First Step Film Fest in Tirana, Albania

Tixeon Cast and Crew:

Cast
Siân Bevan - Psychiatrist Rain

Amie Burns Walker - Lunar

Nick Cheales - Elder Greysky

Ken Matthews - Investigator (voice)

Joe Hope - Orderly

Joe “Rambutans” Hope is a self-unemployed consultant in liminal, transitional and transformative approaches to personal inertia. His previous lives include work as a professional tree-hugger, solutions innovator for very hard sums and expert in unnoticeable microbiota. He holds a doctorate in automated tree dreaming. Joe regularly delights and stupefies audiences with his hilarious broken collarbone, yet he still manages to cut a dash in a white lab coat.

Crew

Director/Producer/Writer/Editor
Felipe Bustos Sierra is rather tall, incorrectly assumes all deadlines are flexible and really likes to do nothing but watch filums all day.  Except that’s just not possible, is it?  One day he’ll grow up.

Writer/Producer
Siân Bevan is a writer and performer based in Edinburgh. She’s performed stand-up comedy since 2004, including two Edinburgh Fringe shows, and launched on the cabaret circuit in 2008 in character as Mme Myfanwy. She writes stuff for magazines. Not dirty magazines, although she did try that once, which led to an incredibly embarrassing series of events. Never again. Unless the money was right.

Visual Effects and Title Sequence
Frédéric Plasman is the hardest working man in Belgium.  A complete filmmaker, he’s written, directed and designed documentaries, short films, music videos, commercials and museum exhibitions.  He would be the hardest working man in the world, except for the fact that he hates flying.  But one day… one day.  (Un jour… un jour…)  

Sound Design
Sylvain Druart is also the hardest working man in Belgium.  A one-man sound studio, he rescues short foreign films out of the goodness of his own heart and builds his own house.  Sylvain Druart is all that is man.

Costume Designer
Emma Brierley gets it done.  She’ll get all worked up about it and right in your face, but she gets it done and it’s always EPIC, as she likes to say.  She’s a multi-talented, multi-skilled costume, puppet and prop designer who has led workshops for kids and adults all over the UK. Her work has recently been featured on Blue Peter.

Make-Up/Scar Make-Up
Mona Kastell has created costumes for Circus/Street Theatre/Physical Theatre, as well as films.  It’s her passion and she’s tried to reduce the amount of waste by patchworking everything together.  Less waste, more colors and a happy Mother Earth. But what she really really wanted to be was a jester.

Production Managers
Stephen Wilson went to film school and graduated with plans to travel to America and make it big in Hollywood.  He got sidetracked on the way by a bunch of juggling weirdos and went off to work in the circus for a while.  Dragging himself away from hippie squalor, he combined his interests and produced two bestselling fire spinning DVDs and now specialises in winning viral video contests.

Robyn Hambrook is a jack of all trades and could have single-handedly made the film herself, but chose to let other people have a go. Her wealth of worldly experience has spanned film, outdoor and site-specific theatre, dance and event management as well as performing, teaching, choreographing and directing. The worldly bit includes working in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, the UK, parts of Europe and most recently Poland!

Prop Designer
Johnathan Elders is working his wee bottom off to set himself up so he can spend the next two=thirds of his life being creative.  He’s the strongest vegan we know.  


Still Photography
Chris Scott, the product of four generations with a passion for photography, suffers from a hereditary affliction which requires him to point a camera at things with alarming regularity. People rarely object - and have been known to pay for the privilege.