thanks

Lol

Great. It is a bit of a balancing act these days.
Glad you came back here to talk

thanks for watching
it is a bit long so I'm glad you got through it.

Okay Alex -- I've slept on it and now I know what to say.

Firstly, this is Felliniesque and for that reason alone I love it! The fact that it's called Asa Nisi Masa is great because of the magical implications of the meaning of those words. Then there's the various shots from 8 1/2. This Felliniesque quality is then compounded by the self-referential construction of the film. (Another thought has just occurred to me: I will have to watch it again and compare your imagery to Juliet of the Spirits).

I'd hate to be in one of your dreams without a synopsis of the script ;-)

Secondly, it chilled me to consider what must be rattling around inside your mind. Not just because of the sound and images that were projected (and particularly your paintings) - but because you seem to have an uncanny attachment to MY favorite films. So if your mind is a worry, by implication so is mine.

Thirdly, from a contextual point of view the combination of your artwork with images from films was simply superb.

Fourthly, I found the narrative compelling me to go on to the conclusion. You're right - it is a long film but I couldn't let go, or rather it wouldn't let go of me. Is it the personal, or the first person telling of it, I'm not sure. And when I shared it with my son, Greg, he found it engagingly magnetic too. Both of us have watched it all the way through twice.

The result of your effort is a wonderful creation. A film that is as enigmatic and thought provoking as your paintings. Congratulations. Bravo. Well done.

Thanks so much for your kind words and careful attention. I'm still considering making a few chages here and there, but frankly I don't feel like looking at it for a while. I imagine this story will always be a work in progress, or I think I called it a work in regress... but that may have been one of the jokes I cut out.

Not sure what to say next.

thanks again.

gift curse, something.

Thanks for watching

thanks remmmy
8:18 seems to be my ear?

so I maybe mistaken. Can't watch it right now but I think it was one where the eyes are videos.

that's 5:13...I think... Doesn't matter. Thanks

Yeah I didn't really do much advertising as I was little worried I would go down in flames!
Still it was s full house.

I had made the visuals a few years ago, but without the narrative text, or voice over. I sort of hid the story in the loops and paintings and then unpacked it live five years later. I'm just glad it sort of worked.

and light.

Yeah I was going for some laughs too.
Though I cut out a couple of jokes as they seemed a little extraneous to the story line and the thing is already too long for most people (myself included) to sit through.

nope..it was just right, all my experience of death and the consequences of those deaths have been tinged with humour imagined or physical, not black humour but a want to laugh as much as cry at the death/ birth of life. Your paintings fit better in my mind now the shapes and forms more readily fit your purpose...or I know more about their past and instigation....and see past the technique to the underlying comment.....I sound like a twat art wanker so I will stop ....I love it, gift or curse it rocks!!

it just hurts my ears

Thanks. I'm glad it wasn't too long.

It wasn't for sure.

thanks much

glad you liked it

thans much

I can't really watch it, so I'm glad someone is...

thanks adriana

Thanks for your kind words. I felt very unsure of doing this both as performance and film, but I've been very happy that audiences seem to get something from it. I've seen Performance several times. Fascinating film as is almost anything Nick Roeg touched. There's an interesting documentary on Cammell out there too... Performance was sort of his first best attempt and everything after a strange struggle.

Indeed. There's a bit of Lennon & McCartney who-did-what about Performance, though it's hard to look at Roeg's subsequent work, especially Don't Look Now, an undoubted masterpiece, and not conclude that his is the greater influence on the whole.

i can only give you

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