Straight on Until Morning

All children except one grow up. We all know this has to happen…
I dont ever want to grow up, said Peter. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun!

The film’s title is taken from the directions to Neverland in the story of Peter Pan and evokes
a kaleidoscope of flashbacks – visual, oral, half-remembered and revisited by the adult mind
striving to make some meaningful pattern out of the chaos of the past. Family home movies
overlap with dreamlike sequences capturing elements from both natural and manmade
patterns.

A caravan holiday, the story of Peter Pan seen through a grown-ups eyes, the jingle of an
ice-cream van, a small childs game of stepping over the cracks in the pavement on his way
to school…these are triggers for the imagination as the adult recollects a stream of buried
memories. Remembered fragments are interwoven with an analysts discourse, set against
a rhythmic collage of images (re-worked from 1950s home movies, Super 8, 16mm and
slides). Behaviour patterns, the fiction of the memory and our attempts to make sense of
our inner world – or escape it – are questioned and explored.