Holbrook 19.9.21
It's 8:30AM. I've had a bit of a lie-in. I'm sitting in an East Midlands garden. We've been lucky enough to come here a lot during lock-down, once the initial 'STAY IN YOUR HOMES' passed.
I particularly love it at this time - first thing Sunday. The sounds of a suburb. Birdsong, paper rounds, the corner shop opening up.
We've been especially obliged in the last couple of years to reflect on how lucky and privileged we are. We've been largely untouched by coronavirus and, as someone who rarely goes out, and has been able to work from home successfully, it's not changed my life a lot.
If you've not watched Help with Jodie Comer & Stephen Graham you should. It tells the other side of the stony incredibly well.
And subtly, it seems to have found an entirely new way of filming people. Close to the face, like a phone, but not cloying or exploitative. Flat but shifting focus. Stark and sharp. Or something. Film people will explain it better.
And as ever, I always enjoy it when people capture some aspect of modern life that we've all lived with but which I haven't noticed in ART, like the constant background murmur/whine of a repeating IVR message.
Anyway. Watch Help.