Voice Over

Difficult and rather unusual but I rather liked this taken from the original 16mm elements. The radio 'play' is the narrative given every night and made up before during the day or maybe as he makes it up as he goes on. It is something like a 19th century romance and he has some postcards of some famous painting as his inspiration. This has lots of people who apparently love it and listen on the radio although maybe they find it silly. So he gets upset and starts changing the story having a vampire or more violence. Then there is really violence first with two girls when he gets drunk and even more when he brings home a bloodied women from the street back to his place. This is really rather worrying, we think she might be dead or dying and then he undresses and redresses her which I find even more troubling. It goes on a little too long towards the end but it is rather impressive for this with such a low budget when he had been at Chelsea School of Art in London. I understand that at the time he was, like many of us, inspired by Warhol and loved Heat (1971) that was a little based on Sunset Boulevard (1950). At the end and the very, long slow out zoom reminded me of the experimental short, Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow. With this surprisingly Christopher Monger also went on to make, The Englishmen Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1992) with Hugh Grant.