Six 8mm shorts by Bill Douglas were shown at the opening Gala of 2024's Glasgow Short Film Festival. Many had not been seen since the late 1960s when they were made, though clips from some do appear in Bill Douglas: My Best Friend.
By now Bill Douglas indulges in play with this from Bijou Productions, cutout characters making opening credits. Gerard Black's score is full of synthesiser bubbles and stabs, a later dreamlike aerial shot revealed in subsequent Q&a to be a treasure from trespass. A box of items is marked Black Magic because it's recycled from the chocolates, but its role seems perilously close to wizardry if not voodoo.
There are hints, entirely coincidental, of The Conversation, but that mixture of paranoia and surveillance is a heady one. So too the circling and revelation, as uncertainty is drawn to different poles like a malfunctioning compass. The live score at times.
By now Bill Douglas indulges in play with this from Bijou Productions, cutout characters making opening credits. Gerard Black's score is full of synthesiser bubbles and stabs, a later dreamlike aerial shot revealed in subsequent Q&a to be a treasure from trespass. A box of items is marked Black Magic because it's recycled from the chocolates, but its role seems perilously close to wizardry if not voodoo.
There are hints, entirely coincidental, of The Conversation, but that mixture of paranoia and surveillance is a heady one. So too the circling and revelation, as uncertainty is drawn to different poles like a malfunctioning compass. The live score at times.
- 3/23/2024
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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