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With his new exhibition, award-winning film-maker Anthony Byrne returns to photography, his first love

YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when an audience has particularly enjoyed a film: there is no scramble for coats and hats, no dash to the aisles and exit the moment the action ends. Instead, as one, you wait, trying to extract every last moment from your experience, listening to the closing music, and watching the credits roll. Sometimes you’re rewarded for your faithful waiting with a final snippet of something, an unexpected treat for staying to the very end. But all films do eventually end, and what you take with you, when you leave the cinema, are memories of movement, snatches of dialogue, and feeling – yes, when you have particularly enjoyed a film, you are left with so much feeling.