Mind Shadows
Mind Shadows is the directorial debut from Matthew Coleman aka The Enfant Terrible: “It is about the obsession of love, of clinging to something that has ended, of the multiple dualities of man and woman as the scales shift and swirl perpetually. It can only ever result in one way…”
Petit mort
Robinson, published in 1993, most strongly recalls Patrick Hamilton and the dissolute effects of wallowing in states of alcoholic and psychological abandonment, as the un-named narrator is drawn into Robinson’s seedy underworld. Robinson is a kind of Luther Blissett for Iain Sinclair’s reforgotten club, a key who is picked up and put down, edged out of the frame or focussed tight in on.
James Bridle on the ‘reforgotten’ Chris Petit.