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.
EXHIBITIONS, RELEASES & SCREENINGS 2025:
‘Postcards’ / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 8 - 18 January ‘Habitat’ / Cupola Gallery, Sheffield / 14 March - 19 April ‘Wild Landscapes’ / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 18 - 27 March ‘The Elements’ / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 18 - 27 March NEW PODCAST RELEASE / ‘The Newt-Man of Memory Lane: The Lost Evidence’ / Acast, YouTube and Vimeo / 1 April LINK HERE ‘Rumours, Rituals and Relics’ featuring ‘The Newt-Man of Memory Lane’ / Group show with Michael Borkowsky, Sharon Borkowsky, Richard Bradley and Joe Winstanley / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / 23 April - 1 May OFFICIAL SELECTION / ‘The Newt-Man of Memory Lane’ / Fortean Film Festival, Standish / 31 October
Temperance Pictures is an award-winning 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, two podcasts, released ten soundtrack albums and created several thousand original artworks.
Self-taught as filmmakers, after leaving school they began work 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. Flake! won the Directors’ Choice of Best Film in Competition award at the Attic Theatre International Film Festival in 2024.
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 200 pieces of original soundtrack music and songs for film, radio and live performance, a selection of which is available to listen to and download freely on their Bandcamp page. Alongside film and audio, Jim is an internationally published artist and has exhibited and sold his work at 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 accompanying book featuring lyric poetry and original cyanotype prints.
“It can be done. Do it your own way.”