I write so little fanfiction, it is all the more of an honor to find a story of mine cited in this beautiful essay by Nasim Mansuri: "Our Country: C.S. Lewis, Calormen, and How Fans Are Reclaiming the Fictionalized East." It does make me want to read all the rest, the author's included.
I went to bed far too late last night because I had discovered a cache of British quota quickies on one of the junkier free channels of the Roku, where everything looks like it was hastily ripped from a cassette in an independent video store right before they sold all their stock and closed in the late 2000's. There are also a number on the Internet Archive. I have never studied these fast, cheap, second features in the same way as American B-movies and I don't know if that's about to change, but I have finally seen some early Michael Powell and I hope to describe it if nothing else.
I missed Ladaniva's "Vay Aman" when it was released in 2020, but it's really lovely: a core of Armenian folk with exuberant fusions like a jazz trumpet breakdown.
I am not in great physical or mental shape right now, but I appreciate the existence of art.
P.S. Latest example, courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shewhomust: Emperor Hadrian's 1900 Birthday Bubble Bath. "As it is his 1900th birthday, it is rumoured that Sulis, the Romano-Celtic Goddess of thermal springs and healing waters more usually associated with Bath, will be attending to ensure Hadrian's water is suitably warm . . . The Emperor Hadrian will be supported by a small retinue of Romans plus local barbarian onlookers and even the Fool of Muncaster, amazed at the sophistication and civilizing influence of the Roman Empire." I assume someone will be filming it for posterity, but they should be either Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair or the ghost of Derek Jarman.
I went to bed far too late last night because I had discovered a cache of British quota quickies on one of the junkier free channels of the Roku, where everything looks like it was hastily ripped from a cassette in an independent video store right before they sold all their stock and closed in the late 2000's. There are also a number on the Internet Archive. I have never studied these fast, cheap, second features in the same way as American B-movies and I don't know if that's about to change, but I have finally seen some early Michael Powell and I hope to describe it if nothing else.
I missed Ladaniva's "Vay Aman" when it was released in 2020, but it's really lovely: a core of Armenian folk with exuberant fusions like a jazz trumpet breakdown.
I am not in great physical or mental shape right now, but I appreciate the existence of art.
P.S. Latest example, courtesy of
shewhomust: Emperor Hadrian's 1900 Birthday Bubble Bath. "As it is his 1900th birthday, it is rumoured that Sulis, the Romano-Celtic Goddess of thermal springs and healing waters more usually associated with Bath, will be attending to ensure Hadrian's water is suitably warm . . . The Emperor Hadrian will be supported by a small retinue of Romans plus local barbarian onlookers and even the Fool of Muncaster, amazed at the sophistication and civilizing influence of the Roman Empire." I assume someone will be filming it for posterity, but they should be either Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair or the ghost of Derek Jarman.
