More beautiful than any dolls house
this ancient place,
forever in sympathy with its
setting.
Here, Old Machar became new,
a central feathered granite stairway
welcomes guests
through Abergeldie doorways:
‘we met yesterday said the room’.
Such persistence of old takes stamina:
no bumpy approach track could contest!
Talk about the Art of transition!
Tillybin would understand:
– drums beat
– nights fly
stars gloriously free.
By Peter Scott-Gordon
19 October 2024
Last weekend I returned to Aberdeen to meet up with a friend. This short film is based on my trip back up north and is dedicated to such friendship.
I have tried to maintain some sort of narrative to this short film, though some knowledge of my past life and my various interests would no doubt help in aspects of appreciation of this film.
Gallery 5 [a rainy day in Aberdeen]:
To play this short film please click here.
Featured in this film, in time order:
[1] Greenwich Time Pips
[2] Bagpuss: The bony king of nowhere
[3] My 1959 Land Rover
[4] Disblair House, Newmachar [my base for the weekend]
[5] Seaton Park, Aberdeen [in the rain]
[6] Aberdeen Art Gallery
[7] Kingseat Hospital, Newmachar [what remains of it]
The voice that features in this film is that of Deborah Levy [recorded on her appearance at last year’s Edinburgh Book Festival]
Music credits:
[1] ‘The Bony King of Nowhere’ – Bagpuss
[2] ‘My Body is a cage’ – Peter Gabriel
[3] ‘Leave your Body behind you’ – Richard Hawley