Isolation & Madness In Brynmill 26/01/03 22:27

Not really much to ramble on about at this point as I've been far too busy reading and working on 'Pre-Life Crisis'. I've made some quite major developments in my approach to the film thanks to Gonzo journalism, Chris marker's 'La Jetee' and a bit of Quadrophenia and so I've gone for the idea of making it as a film told in slides and to have the central character be a fictional person played by myself rather than doing the whole thing as some sort of self-portrait. This way I can take absolute liberties with my autobiographical details and make the antihero do things that I would never dream of. It also means hopefully I can distance myself a bit from the work thus making it a lot more accessible to the viewer, in theory anyway.

The second image from the series to be unleashed on the public in a non-electronic form is 'Let's Bomb Iraq!', which is being used in a small anti-war exhibition at the University of Wales, Swansea this week. Although not specifically an anti-war image it was created out of a disgust for the pub-philosophy quoting tabloid mentality that seems to consume our nation whenever the public need to be whipped into a patriotic frenzy to justify all our hard-earned cash being used to blow the shit out of civilians with cluster bombs in some far off sandy wasteland like Iraq or Afghanistan.

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• 22/09/02 21:43 - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
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• 18/12/02 21:03 - Call-Centre Burnout & The Joys Of Christmas (Pt. 1)
• 27/12/02 21:03 - The Joys Of Christmas (Pt. 2)