About the Producer:
Robin McAlpine graduated from Glasgow University to work as a journalist.
He then moved to London to become Press Officer to George Robertson,
then Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and leader of the Scottish
Labour Party. Returning to Scotland to work in policy development, Robin has
now been employed as Public Affairs Manager for Universities Scotland for
eight years. Universities Scotland is the representative body of the higher
education sector in Scotland and he has responsibility for campaign
development, media relations, lobbying, external relations and strategy.
Robin is also the Editor of the Scottish Left Review, Scotland’s leading left-ofcentre
political magazine. In 2004 he set up the Scottish Left Review Press, a
publishing arm of the Scottish Left Review. SLR Press’ fifth book will be
published this year.
Film synopsis:
Four people awake in a derelict house with no memory of who they are or why they are there. All they know is that tonight, when they fall asleep they will forget everything again, so they have only a few hours to find out something – anything – about what or who is doing this to them. As they journey through a desolate, abandoned landscape they come to realise that this may all have happened before. And that they may be their own enemies. Blank is a existential, psychological thriller which explores the cycle of violence and retribution which comes from the failure to remember the lessons of the past. The film is inspired by Milan Kundera’s quote “the struggle of freedom against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”. A post-apocalyptic thriller about suspicion, mistrust and fear which leads to a shocking conclusion, the film is a political parable of the dangers of forgetting lessons and repeating mistakes.