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Friday 8 May 2015

We close every Thursday afternoon [Emma ~ 1975, Scene Three]

More views of or before Cambridge Film Festival 2015 (3 to 13 September)
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


8 May


With them...


A 150-word story for Mark Brown
[and all that he and so many do for mental-health difficulty]



Whatever it was that they did have, what was almost more important with them, for their story had been 'non-events'. Then, spirits of impossibility and inopportunity had been accorded oversight : 


Their not kissing (when, hurriedly, they first might have kissed)... before that (through fright at what might be ?), choosing not to be there at all (when first they could have met)... even before that, The Fates intervening (to prevent what should have been a less-knowing meeting just as 'awkward' for being so ?)...


Painting oneself into a corner ? Hardly a lyrical, poetic image (redolent more of Stan and Ollie ?) of them and theirs yet is it one that speaks of, and into, the implausibility, the notion of the unimaginable, made solid by words, by the voice ?


Made too fleshly solid (for their co-produced impracticability, unreality ?) for the first real event, though booked, to evade the intractability of being a last non-event.


© Belston Night Works 2015





Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)