Clancy Chassay is a writer, director, actor, and journalist.
Chassay appeared as a child actor in two films by Derek Jarman - "Wittgenstein" and "War Requiem".
He was a correspondent for the Guardian newspaper from the outbreak of the Lebanon war in July 2006 and was based in Beirut.
He now works as a director and screenwriter in Los Angeles, USA.
Inspired by real events, a journalist covering the aftermath of an air strike in the Middle East is taken captive by militants.
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice.