Jim (left) and Joseph (right) ring in an order of two lots of chips and peas on the set of their unfinishable 2015 feature Nosy Parkers in Space, based on the true story of toilet attendants Bob Skidweave and Fred Tent, who were accidentally sent into orbit in a portable toilet in 1991.
Jim in a shed busy at work on The Manhasland Project, 2021 - a lifetime’s quest to determinedly always make summat out of nowt. A combination of time, patience, and lamps.
Pod Bible magazine poster advertisement, Issue #027, June 2023. Read the interview HERE.
SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS / SALES 2024:
‘Under the Bed Sale’ / Cupola Gallery, Sheffield / 13 Jan - 4 Feb
‘Meet the Locals’ / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 31 Jan - 15 Feb
‘In Seclusion Part 2’ / Meta Space Gallery / 21 March - 10 April LINK HERE
‘Ancient Landscapes’ / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 26 April - 10 May
‘Landscapes’ / Collect Art, Tbilisi, Georgia / April - May
‘International Shape Exhibition’ / The Glasgow Gallery of Photography / 5 - 30 June LINK HERE
Temperance Pictures is a Derbyshire-based independent film and arts production company, founded in 2015 by Joseph Dethick. Working in close collaboration with his elder brother, Jim, the Dethick Brothers have, to date, made two feature films, ten short films, a comedy podcast, released ten soundtrack albums and created around one thousand original artworks.
Self-taught as filmmakers, after leaving school they worked for many years as stone craftsmen, in and around Derbyshire and the Peak District, to produce their first feature film The Fruits of the Paradise Isle (2012). This took four years to make and served as a rigorous apprenticeship. Soon after, their short musical comedy This Cod Earth (2012) was nominated for two awards at two prestigious UK festivals. In 2014 and 2015 they won two national funding awards from Creative England and the British Film Institute to produce the short films Crisps (2014) and Flake! (2017), the latter also receiving support and investment from British director Ben Wheatley.
The Dethick Brothers aim to produce original, bold, largely experimental films that are visually striking and explore the relationships between image, sound and the written word, combining these on screen in unusual and imaginative ways to tell uncommon stories. Their work portrays an often bizarre, comedic and uniquely vintage-looking world which pits determined and eccentric characters against corrupt and decaying systems. Themes of memory and identity relating to landscape, legend and distortions of time feature regularly in their films, as do explorations into the juxtaposition of narratives set in post-industrial wastelands and unspoiled rural paradises.
In 2023 they released their debut absurdist audio sitcom The Sir Bernard Moore Show as a series available on all podcasting platforms, YouTube and Vimeo. It was selected to be placed on the ‘Best Podcasts UK’ website soon after its release, and Jim and Joseph were interviewed for and featured in the widely distributed UK magazine Pod Bible.
They are also composers and multi-instrumentalists, and have written and performed over 150 pieces of original soundtrack music and songs for film and radio, a selection of which is available to listen to and download freely on their Bandcamp page. Alongside film and audio, Jim is a published designer and artist and has exhibited and sold his work at UK galleries and through private commission for over twenty years. Joseph graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree and prize in Film History, Theory and Criticism in 2012.
Currently they are recording a triple album of spoken word electronica under the guise of Rother Valley-born world-wise troubadour Chris Baughtcake, and are developing this alongside an installation concept to include paintings and printed poetry.
“It can be done. Do it your own way.”