Bottled History

Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it.

Presented by Smith Journal, a quarterly Australian magazine for guys (smithjournal.com.au)

A film by Commoner (vimeo.com/commonerfilms)
Music by Ben Yardley