I was seeing this so vividly in my mind's eye as I read that I went looking for it before I finished reading. You have a way of speaking directly into my brain. Every line you write sets me tingling.
Thank you so much. That's an incredible compliment.
--the beautiful clarity of dreams. As you say at the end: when the world runs in retrograde, dream sideways. ... I really want to see this sideways dream (with Pet Shop Boys soundtrack? Oh yes!)
Jarman did twovideos with the Pet Shop Boys and designed the show for their first tour. They wrote a concert for Alan Turing. I couldn't avoid it and didn't want to. I did want the soundtrack.
Your final paragraph: so ... did you dream this? If I feel it's real, based on what you've written here, can that make it be real?
I dreamed it existed and I couldn't see it! I could see a frame on the BFI website—a long shot of Alan on the sea-strand, making a logarithmic spiral of stones—and the couple of teaser sentences that described it. Previously in the dream I had been aware of it only through such evocatively cryptic mentions that I couldn't tell if it had ever been made, or completed, or just imagined. Tilda Swinton was introducing it.
(PS Halfway through reading this, I was so entranced I went looking for it. Even not finding the slightest hint of it, I still was sure, sure, sure, it was some rarity you had watched at a private screening until I got to that last paragraph. What a conjuring!)
*hugs*
I wish I could make it film for you! (The BFI would have had my money in advance.)
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Thank you so much. That's an incredible compliment.
--the beautiful clarity of dreams. As you say at the end: when the world runs in retrograde, dream sideways. ... I really want to see this sideways dream (with Pet Shop Boys soundtrack? Oh yes!)
Jarman did two videos with the Pet Shop Boys and designed the show for their first tour. They wrote a concert for Alan Turing. I couldn't avoid it and didn't want to. I did want the soundtrack.
Your final paragraph: so ... did you dream this? If I feel it's real, based on what you've written here, can that make it be real?
I dreamed it existed and I couldn't see it! I could see a frame on the BFI website—a long shot of Alan on the sea-strand, making a logarithmic spiral of stones—and the couple of teaser sentences that described it. Previously in the dream I had been aware of it only through such evocatively cryptic mentions that I couldn't tell if it had ever been made, or completed, or just imagined. Tilda Swinton was introducing it.
(PS Halfway through reading this, I was so entranced I went looking for it. Even not finding the slightest hint of it, I still was sure, sure, sure, it was some rarity you had watched at a private screening until I got to that last paragraph. What a conjuring!)
*hugs*
I wish I could make it film for you! (The BFI would have had my money in advance.)