Lamp lighter II

Glum, Goose, and Louis

Lamp lighter

Bonnie Bonnie Billy

Up North

My first film Up North has been selected as part of the UW student film festival next week.  It is in the running for the 'best cinematography' award.  I've spent a great deal of time on this project so it will be great to see it screened in a room full of people that I don't know.  

Also, the landscape from the opening scene has changed...

Lights on, and some garbage

The Underpass

The Morel house

I had the chance to re-visit D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers this week and I was impressed all over again with how great it is.  This is one of my favourite pieces of dialogue.

Meantime Arthur, still fond of his father, would lean on the arm of Morel's chair and say:
"Tell us about down pit, daddy."
This Morel loved to do.
"Well, there's one little 'oss-we call 'im Taffy," he would begin.
"An' he's a fawce 'un!"
Morel had a warm way of telling a story.  He made one feel Taffy's cunning.
"He's a brown 'un," he would answer, "an' not very high.  Well, he comes i' th' stall wi' a rattle, an' then yo' 'ear 'im sneeze.
"'Ello, Taff,' you say, 'what art sneezing' for? Bin ta'ein' some snuff?'
"An' 'e sneezes again.  Then he slices up an' shoves 'is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.
"'What's want, Taff?' yo' say."