You have the role, Patrick. As for sunset, well they start there, and never
really get beyond it.
I dunno whether Robbie and Omnia could do ERIK and ERIKA, maybe with some
morphing perchance?
Best
Keep on flapping
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> Davrie---Yes it sounds like Raynes Park the day I met Omnia and Robbie
> But in the kids program would they have got as far as sunset???
> We could make this film clip and I want to be death-am good flapping and
> Omnia has flapped in her time
> Just woken up postsiested P flapping P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 06 December 2005 11:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>
> I can elaborate:
>
> The Sveigersons, featuring Erik and Erika.
>
> Opening shot: a long delayed sunset, that never seems to end.
>
> Switch to: Erik (age 7) holding his head in his hands in gloom, sitting on
a
> bare rock.
>
> ERIK (to Erika): "I'm depressed"
>
> Pan to, after quick shot of Erika (age 5) waking to alertness on her
> slightly smaller bare rock, wide sweep of denuded landscape occasionally
> peppered by deserted crumbling villages, starving goats, postcards from
> Grimsby or Skegness saying 'Glad you're not here', upside-down American
> flags, overhead distant Russian clouds of Slavic gloom threatening.
>
> 20 minutes later:
>
> ERIKA: "The world is too much with us"
>
> ERIK nods his head, slowly, ruefully.
>
> In the distance DEATH is seen flapping his wings on a hill.
>
> 10 minutes pause. Slow fade. End of programme.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>
>
> > Knut, I like this! I have this vision of kids tv produced by Ingmar
> Bergman
> > .....
> >
> > brilliant
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Knut Mork Skagen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 6, 2005, at 03:34, George Hunka wrote:
> > >
> > > > I can't speak for Europeans, but I think we Americans are a little
> > > > afraid of silences and empty spaces; we want to put something there,
> > > > make some noise, have a presence.
> > >
> > > Scandinavians, at least, live almost exclusively off silences and
empty
> > > spaces. Its influence reaches as far as children's television, which
is
> > > full of anxious facial expressions, eery music, and dramatic pause.
> > >
> > > --Knut
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