the fall of the house of fitzgerald (not quite the final cut)

strangemouth came up to visit and deposited the rough cut of the fall of the house of fitzgerald onto horsemouth’s devices. horsemouth has watched it through probably about 20 times now. he pronounces himself delighted. in a little while he will watch it again. he thanks his co-directors en za and strangemouth. 

this is the dancing about architecture project (interpretative dance against gentrification). 

even the magic of the cinema is unable to stop the forces of capital. horsemouth cannot work out how to show you any of it (even if he were allowed to). 

horsemouth made sten watch it. (he said he liked it). 

now horsemouth (and his co-directors) have to work out how to distribute it round the globe (or at least make it available to people who might be interested). 

it features music by a number of musicians - including an improv with horsemouth using the zither thing, a track by musicians of bremen (malkin tower from the humming EP) and a track by horsemouth himself (ok strangemouth’s musical alterego whose name temporarily escapes horsemouth as he re-types this) is in there on drums somewhere) highrise strutters ball (this being a version of darktown strutters ball cleaned up for modern sensibiities). sten said the music worked particularly well. 

horsemouth’s ways of working have been shifting for a while. in former decades horsemouth would have battled for a particular vision of the piece, for particular shots and edits, in this decade (and in particular in this year) he is content to genuinely collaborate and allow other people’s visions through instead. 

as soon as they stopped actually filming horsemouth’s work was done (well ok he did help out a little with tidying up after). he does have one request - that they use the above photo of en za that horsemouth took during the dress rehearsals. it’s very strong. plus it shows the medusa crown straight on. the colours and the geometrical shapes are good. 

horsemouth is also up a film poster (A4 ish) and a be-glittered postcard of himself in a sun ra type pose. at the end of the month they will reconvene. horsemouth hears that en za has the launch event planned already. 

in recent nights horsemouth watched night of the demon, nightfall and I walked with a zombie by the director jacques tourneur. all great noir movies with great use of light and shadow. 

we are in the chronology of night of the demon - holden (the disbelieving scientist) has been cursed by the black magician karswell. he is due to die at 10pm on the night of the 28th of october. tonight (in the chronology). to time it exactly right start watching at 8.33pm.