Note for filming: 2 camera angles used, one fisheye of observer’s face from below, other of the Informer’s in street, low angle, distorted. Filming locations ideally Gas Works Rd. & Hibernian Rd., Cork city. Time ideally day. Costumes ideally nondescript, as ordinary as possible. Props optional. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAEQwrGw4GC2
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Establishing shot shows street. Wall. Street. Drone off into sky. Return. Switch to observer’s face. Observer woman mid 20s, starring off front, distant eyes, moving forwards slowly, shawl or scarf tight around head. Observer voice over plays after a few moments, lasts until appearance of Informer. Voiceover is as follows: 100Please respect copyright.PENANALmNMY7HkcA
Observer Voiceover: Back along the streets I used to walk on. Picking stories out. Bruise marks mean heeled feet. A pair of tights and a sports jacket, college night out. Cork crests. Look into the broken glass see his alcohol tolerance. And no-one in sight. No-one ever in sight. Every cig end was smoked once. All the mouths. All the feet, socks, shoes, tramping on through. Don’t touch with fingers. Fingers carry the little killers. But look at that shoe tossed away. Whose was that? Athletic one. A man approaches. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA2xDWauHOQp
Change angle to second. The Informer stumbles towards the camera, looks tired, strained, drug-induced maybe, he speaks: 100Please respect copyright.PENANAeAyQUmTxQ5
Informer: It was not like this at all. 100Please respect copyright.PENANABVKV0n9KRu
Observer: How was it then? 100Please respect copyright.PENANAPlm3kbTDcZ
Informer: Completely different from your view. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAIVg6Kw0oC1
Observer: What other view is there... 100Please respect copyright.PENANAP6pQz71lEz
Informer: You’re a sick creature and we don’t want you to return. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA48TtYjXfWV
Observer: This is strange from what I’ve seen. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAyxQ0aEWAB6
Informer: If you return you won’t be let in. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAzug5pgAZgK
Observer: They always let me in. Even Sundays. 100Please respect copyright.PENANArPL3VCrWYh
Informer: They said that you can’t any longer. They told me everything about you. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA70xZInut8q
Observer: What did they say about me? 100Please respect copyright.PENANAOg0Eng40dn
Informer: They said nothing. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA0khc9iTtDW
Observer: But what did they say? 100Please respect copyright.PENANABIt8MptcLM
Informer: (with emphasis) They said nothing. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAMxKCOXVLvB
Observer: It is so. There are still truths to be found in the gutter...100Please respect copyright.PENANAseeiNKlUrK
Informer: This is false. Those are my clothes and shoes. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAZQdVNzKjc7
Observer: That cannot be.100Please respect copyright.PENANAIWyzZL5sKK
Informer: That can only be. I work as a strip model at the Dean. So those are my clothes. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA1Qnnai7sVn
Observer: Why were they left behind?100Please respect copyright.PENANAjIbFzPy2LC
Informer: Wouldn’t you like to hear. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA0SMAhEJYQf
Observer: Please. It’s now all I have left. Let my drums sink into them. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAJpm3saBDlX
Informer: I fucked him over the Honda parked opposite. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAuOeQSUClhH
Observer: What did it feel like? 100Please respect copyright.PENANABABT8mnoj1
Informer: You would never know. Emotional memory distant. Leave away me now. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAPPHE60ihQL
Observer: And can’t ever feel. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAo13OXLr2BX
Informer: And another thing. They told me all about you and there was a bit more. They said you know no-one and should never be listened to. You are darkness. You are emptiness packed with cig butts and trays of dead grease. You are nothing and won’t ever be. 100Please respect copyright.PENANANkSFsME4ob
Observer: And can’t ever be. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAAgX2XUaWy1
Suddenly, the Informer vanishes out of existence. Sudden blackout. Then. Observer awakes on ground. How many years has it been. Voiceover voice now distorted and rough from age and use. POV angle of Observer getting up from street. Cut back to fisheye angle of face. Continue walking along with voiceover monologue playing until end. The shawl is gone now. Hair is messy. Voiceover is as follows: 100Please respect copyright.PENANA6I0szhKrEr
Observer Voiceover: And that was it. That was all that all it was. Walking back along. Always find my way back somehow. Same old place somehow. So many streets in Cork. So many middle, first names. I run out of hyperfixations, run out of fancy lightings, my meaning becomes abstract. I become now the abstraction of me. Forever doomed. Never can be. And see again. Same old clothes, left behind in the shit drain. Junkie turd levelled on a pair of sad tights. Fall now. Become the studied shit. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAyPHy1HMKOf
End. Blackout. Ends. 640 words. Almost there.100Please respect copyright.PENANAaOccSk8kdB