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Paul Rooney writer bursary
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'Bellevue', Film, 2009
Paul Rooney's film Bellevue opens at Harewood House near Leeds in early April. We are working with Film and Video Umbrella to offer a bursary of £70 to enable a writer to visit and review the show for Interface. If you would like to be considered for this opportunity please email interface@a-n.co.uk with a few words about your interest in this show by Monday 19 April.
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Based upon Malcolm Lowry’s short story ‘Lunar Caustic’, whose flights of fancy emanate from inside the walls of a 1930s New York psychiatric hospital, Rooney’s video takes place against the idealised backdrop of a picture-perfect English country house, and depicts an advertising agency focus group (on a company away-day) discussing the use of Lowry’s writing in a campaign. Colliding contemporary marketing jargon with the literary innovations of mid-20th century modernism, ‘Bellevue’ subjects ‘reality’ to various levels of scrutiny; highlighting the potential for imaginative projection (and creative confusion) engendered by the written word.
First published: a-n.co.uk March 2010
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