In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the strange and hilarious world view of the fragile eccentric, Drako Zarharzar. A love story. Drako Oho Zaraharzar can remember modeling for Salvador Dali and hanging out with The Stones. But he can’t remember yesterday. Following a severe head injury, Drako Zaraharzar suffers from terrible memory loss, he can access memories from before his accident, but can’t imprint new ones. As he puts it, “the recording machine in my head doesn’t work”. Consequently, and as an antidote to depression he chose to live “completely in the now” according to the bizarre mottoes delivered to him whilst in a coma.
Direction
Amies dissolves the filmmaker-subject boundary completely.
Production
Collage aesthetic mirrors Drako's fractured consciousness.
Director
Toby Amies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Drako really did model for Salvador Dalí as a young man; the surrealist painted him multiple times.
The film's title comes from a 1970s Hawkwind track, matching Drako's countercultural orbit with The Rolling Stones and beyond.
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