The Gate of Angels
Filmed at the Mains of Ulbster with Sian, on Wednesday 5th February 2020. You can read more about John Sinclair of Ulbster (1754-1834) here. This film is for Alexander McCall … Continue reading The Gate of Angels
Tag: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Goodbye to all that
This film begins with the voice of Antony Gormley, an artist that I would die to meet: Music credit: from Ghosteen by Nick Cave and the Bad seeds Special credit: … Continue reading Goodbye to all that
Dead slow
For Arthur. Music credit: ‘Ghosteen Speaks’ by Nick Cave and the Bad seeds
The world is beautiful
All material used in this short film, apart from archive footage of my children, was taken by Peter on a visit to Glasgow on Monday 9th December 2019. Music Credit: … Continue reading The world is beautiful
Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots
Introducing Girgenti At Girgenti you can still hear two girls sing. Girgenti followed Paestum From Thimble Row to Discoveries:
Discoveries at Girgenti
This is my final film on Girgenti:
Girgenti followed Paestum
It might have been the other way around: Paestum may have followed Girgenti. Nabokov once said that he “did not believe in time”. What follows is Girgenti [in the form … Continue reading Girgenti followed Paestum
Girgenti
Girgenti followed Paestum in a blue sky summer that was not little. Beneath this sky two girls sang. It was a beautiful summer.
Thesis 1389
Thesis 1389, and that of Dr Iain Smith give an account of Girgenti following the death of Captain John Cheape:
the Captain died
Captain John Cheape died in 1850. Unmarried and with no children, he left Girgenti to six Scottish hospitals. Girgenti was then sold and re-sold. Summer was giving way to autumn.
after the Napoleonic wars
After serving as a Captain in the Napoleonic wars Captain John Cheape “retired” to the Girgenti of his imagination:
