Three initial Tweets about 20,000 Especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) (2023)

Three initial Tweets about 20,000 Especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) (2023)

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26 October

Three initial Tweets about 20,000 Especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) (2023)

Anton Chekhov met Samuel Beckettt's trio of novels of identity*, a start-time of 11.50 a.m., a run-time of 129 mins plus a constellation of families and their fractures / fissures to map out - not ideal circumstances for 20,000 Especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) (2023) !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 26, 2023

Let alone Day 8 of #CFF42 (whose preceding week had not been untiring / granted enough sleep).

Still, with an aspiration of Mutt (2023) [English and Spanish with English sub-titles), that'll be #UCFF's wrap.

* Molloy / Malone meurt (Malone Dies) / L'innomabable (The Unnamable)

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Plus there's so much 'fitted in', even without Pygmalion allusions, 'the lost-wax method' (known from Michael Ayrton's novel-writing), lore of saints / bees, the question of who owns art when an artist dies and maybe employing worse than plagiarism to obtain a post...

Keep up !

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More to come (D.V.)...

Beckettt and Bees, etc. :

Molloy, Part Two [Moran's narrative], final para.

'I put my hand in the hive, moved it among the empty trays, felt along the bottom. It encountered, in a corner, a dry light ball. It crumbled under my fingers.'#BecketttandBees

1 / 3 https://t.co/uTHExAPJBQ

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Beckettt and Bees, etc. :

Malone Dies (Malone meurt), opening para.

'Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps I shall survive Saint John the Baptist's Day and even the Fourteenth of July, festival of freedom.'#BecketttandBees

2 / 3

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Beckettt and Bees, etc. :

The Unnamable (L'innomable), opening section, 10th para.

'They say they, speaking of them, to make me think it is I who am speaking. Or I say they, speaking of God knows what, to make me think it is not I who am speaking.'#BecketttandBees

3 / 3

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Opening Night at Cambridge Film Festival 2023 : Carol Morley's Typist Artist Pirate King (2022) + Q&A

Opening Night at Cambridge Film Festival 2023 : Carol Morley's Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)

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19 October

Opening Night at Cambridge Film Festival 2023 : Carol Morley's Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)

One of my favourite films of the year 👌🎬

— It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Chris Watt (@thechriswatt) December 2, 2023

Here is Andy who I met tonight at @LewesDepot after the screening of #typistartistpirateking . A little sound bite! @ModernFilmsEnt @BFI @Lipsynctweets Trailer ⬆️ in bio! 💕 pic.twitter.com/deqLOi8ckB

— Carol Morley (@_CarolMorley) November 6, 2023

The film's special part (and its closing credits) was seeing the art of Audrey Amiss* and - for want of a word to describe them - her visual journals and their commentary on resemblance and form in what she kept, but we'd overlook / discard.

* And a local road-sign for Amiss 2. https://t.co/ZpOpXo8FoR

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 19, 2023

It’s a wonderful film, we loved it.
It’s rare in that it’s a film about art that gets it right. But it’s also beautiful about siblings and mental health .. the paintings are terrific.

— Bob&Roberta Smith (@BobandRoberta) November 12, 2023

A member of the audience tonight after a screening talking #typistartistpirateking 💕 @showroomcinema pic.twitter.com/JPnqghyZMh

— Carol Morley (@_CarolMorley) October 31, 2023

The amazing @_CarolMorley & @MonicaDolan will be my guests @_theriverside on 23rd Nov 7:30pm for Carol’s wonderful new film TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING from @ModernFilmsEnt about artist #AudreyAmisshttps://t.co/tXhWIcH8or

Don’t delay and book today!#typistartistpirateking pic.twitter.com/dQJ7dKD8CG

— Neil McGlone (@NeilMcGFilm) October 16, 2023

Alongside which, disputing the notion that what's called 'a breakdown' is always a bad experience** and not, potentially, a creative, illuminating or even redemptive one that can give hope or restore trust.

More at : https://t.co/M2KK078sjm

** For some, it is or can be.

2 / 2

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 19, 2023

Yes, that *was* meant to read 'a good fit', but I was too quick to Tweet and hadn't noticed. :) https://t.co/LRkTH71w2f

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In the way that film's a referential medium [if not uniquely so], what else did it remind of ?

En route, #UCFF thought of (date order) :

* A Canterbury Tale (1944)

* Calvet (2011)

* A Very English Winter (2012)

* Nebraska (2013)

* By Our Selves (2015)

* Youth (2015)

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