Dance was my first film. I was so unsure of what I was doing that I was blushing while I made it. Essentially I was recording while playing with an electric toothbrush, a Barbie skirt, string and a red trolley. Without a plan when I started, Dance turned out to be the first of a few films documenting moments in the lives of a series of simple automata. Each has their own character and this one has been described in terms of loneliness, disappointment and futility.—Alex Pearl