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Philip @philipr

writer | director theatre | film | tv blessed & stressed in cape town

Friends at Lake Starnberger, Bavaria, Germany 1946 By Herbert List

Charles ‘Tex’ Smutney and Charles ‘Buddy’ Stanley III 1942 By George Platt Lynes

waking up to this

post-run endorphins ✨

This country is so beautiful I could cry

Just beautiful. Moonlight Barry Jenkins

post-workout, waiting for someone to come pick me up off the floor

bored and hairy

this film breaks me every time, it makes me mourn boyhood and innocence, not-knowing Close Lukas Dhont

working hard on these tree trunks of mine

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder

For a while now my living environment has been very stressful and challenging. I’ve temporarily moved into a new space, and the effect on my mental health has been almost instantaneous. I can feel my creativity, openness and happiness returning. Onwards and upwards.

Sebastiane (1976) Derek Jarman

The Clandestine Mind by John Dugdale

‘Two Men Dancing’ Robert Mapplethorpe

All green for a wedding recently

MOFFIE by Andre Carl van der Merwe is a story about a young gay man conscripted into apartheid SA’s military. I adapted it for the stage; last year we premiered in London, and now it’s finally coming home. 💛 Actor David Viviers pictured here. ‘Moffie’ roughly translates to f*ggot.

Very. Serious. Headshot.

Edmund Teske, San Francisco, 1984

Scene from ‘Moffie’ (dir. Oliver Hermanus)