Jordan's shooting party

Jordan Hogg’s short film, The Fallen, featured in the Channel 4 series The Shooting Party, which followed the progress of nine disabled film-makers who wrote, directed and edited their films. A graduate in film studies from the University of Hull, Jordan (above) tells us about his passions and his wish to make a film about a complete bastard.

What’s the best thing about being disabled?
I love boxing and it's given me the Rocky mentality. It's made me far more determined to succeed.

What makes you angry?
People who don't aspire to anything. I work part-time in a call centre and a lot of the people there are quite happy doing what they’re doing. They look in magazines and feel jealous about people who achieve and I think, “what's stopping you from doing that?”

How do you deal with people who barf on about your impairment? Have you any good putdowns?
I once said to someone, “I was OK before I got together with your mother.” I think that people are reluctant to retaliate because I’m disabled.

What's the one thing that could be invented to make your life as a disabled person better?
Something that would straighten my leg out and take the pressure off my knee and ankle.

What do you like most about writing and directing?
You tend to look at things from a different angle as a disabled person. Non-disabled people tend to treat you differently so I have a lot of fresh ideas to explore.

What don't you like about it?
The conventions. It annoys me that most films with disabled characters like Forrest Gump portray disabled people as amazing when they don’t really do anything. I’d like to make a film showing a disabled person as a complete bastard.

Who’s your favourite disabled person ever?
Freddie Mercury and Zoe Cartwright, another disabled director who made a short film for Channel 4. She is exceptionally talented.

Do you have any special or hidden talent apart from writing and directing?
Fencing. I fence for Bridlington Blades.

If you didn't have your impairment, which one would you like to have?
Autism, because I think you get a very different view of the world, which I think would be a considerably brighter one than the world actually is.

•Jordan’s film is available to view at channel4.com/4od until 27 May.