Episode Five: Eight and a half
BBC TWO, 30 January 2005, 9.30pm
In this episode...
Art finally gets the chance to prove himself as an undiscovered talented independent low-budget filmmaker when he is asked to shoot a wedding video.
The initial flurry of ambitious, original ideas soon gives way to a mammoth existential crisis. It grips Art by the throat and refuses to let go. Fear of the blank page keeps him awake at night. Thoroughly blocked, he sinks into a dark malaise.
In search of inspiration, Art embarks on a filmmaker's odyssey through a sea of dream, memory, fantasy and beautiful women.
Pressure mounts as time begins to run out. But it is in the depths of his despair that he finds a ray of hope in the most unlikely of sources...
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