A prog-rock fever dream where amnesia meets the Severn Bridge — Richard Stanley's strangest hour.
Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.
Direction
Stanley's obsessive detail in every decaying frame.
Score
Marillion's album becomes a character, not just soundtrack.
Cinematography
Grimy, dreamlike images that refuse to let you look away.
Director
Richard Stanley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stanley shot this in abandoned buildings and real squats around Bristol, often without permits, casting actual homeless residents in small roles.
Marillion's BRAVE album was already a concept piece about a woman found on the Severn Bridge; Stanley essentially filmed what the band only implied, creating cinema's rare true 'visual album' before that was even a term.
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