We Are Colony Releases THE MUSE Starring Ben Whishaw Directed By Tim Walker

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The Muse is a new visually-stunning narrative short film starring Ben Whishaw (Spectre, Paddington, Lilting) and model Kristen McMenamy, directed by world-renowned photographer Tim Walker and produced by Oscar-winner Mia Bays.  The film is being released globally, exclusively on We Are Colony – video on-demand (VOD) platform that wants to be “the Netflix of independent film”.

The Muse is about obsession, and how the ‘obsessed’ can often lose sight of the very thing that dominates their thoughts and feelings. Our central character is guilty of this in our story and the price he pays is a heavy one…”, says writer Simone Glover. The Muse is the story of Edward Dunstan (Ben Whishaw), a photographer and filmmaker obsessed by his muse (Kristen McMenamy). Blinded by his all-consuming passion and perfectionism, he was unable to see her as she was and so, she has left him. Only now he understands what she endured, there is nothing left for him but to become both artist and muse…

Producer and co-writer Mia Bays was confident they could bring such an ambitious story to screen: “Tim’s amazing with his collaborators. I can see why his work is so rich and varied – there are extreme situations he puts his team in to get incredibly shots but people want to go the extra mile for him”.

The muse is played by model and long-time collaborator of Walker, Kristen McMenamy. “I give everything to the few photographers that I work with, I give them my soul”, says McMenamy. “When you give everything, and it comes out amazingly, it makes you feel at one with the artist. And Tim has done this consistently with me…he has made me better than I am”.

“We created The Muse knowing that Kristen would be the mermaid”, recalls Bays. “We had Ben Whishaw in mind for the male character, so it was inspiring to write with him in our creative view. And luckily for us, Ben agreed after discussing the idea with Tim”.

The special edition bundle also includes a behind-the-scenes documentary, interviews with cast and crew, stills, original scripts and Walker’s previous short films The Lost Explorer (2010) starring Richard Bremmer, Olympia Campbell and Jessica Hynes, and The Mechanical Man on the Moon for Vogue Italia, starring model Mariacarla Boscono.