My short film, Billy, is currently on show at Bolton Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 2026 Bolton Open. This short film is an animation, a poem and music that I created after seeing an inspiring production of Kes at Bolton Octagon back in 2022- a really fantastic production that has stuck with me. Always been a fan of A Kestrel for a Knave and the film Kes and wondered what happened to Billy Casper after the book? Did he end up down the mine? Did he keep a part of him that loved birds and the countryside alive? My poem dealt with those themes.
I recently found there are some further works but I am not sure if they are sequels or just works in the same universe?

Dreamt of you again Billy Casper.

Free and formless 

Sunlight

Caught on the wing

And wondered

Did you make it back up for air?

Did the black weight,

Solid,

Millions of years in the making,

meet you

Face to face 

In the hot, tense, darkness

Snuff out the light?

Erase,

Like chalk from a blackboard,

The memory of freedom,

Of flight

Of a languid loop,

Pierced by a golden arrow.

Or did you nestle

A flame in your heart forever?

Take carbon, and somehow

Crush it into a diamond

That only shone for you?

And spotting a high bird

On a bright day,

Remember how feeling felt,

Soft like a feather.

Sharp as a claw.