Londinium
A short experimental about the multicultural history of writing, unofficial and official. Writing systems across the world including recently discovered prehistoric menstrual calendars from 20,000 years ago to Viking runestones to Chinese musical notation to Incan quipu knotted-rope systems softly glitch into a time-travelling gay love song playing out in the Roman baths, Saxon invasions, Viking excursions, Norman conquests, nunneries, armies and Victorian high societies of London amidst the forgotten/current names of the city (Londinium, Lundenwic, Caer Ludein, Lundenburgh, Londres, Lundencestir, London, The Big Smoke) and its many peoples (Romans, Celtic Britons, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, Africans, Dutch, Flemish, Irish, South Asians, Chinese, Caribbeans, Middle-Easterners) over the years.
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Kathleen BrysonDirectorFeatures: The Viva Voce Virus, Baked Alaska, Doctor Bitcoin Makes the Magic, Parhelion
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Kathleen BrysonWriterFeatures: The Viva Voce Virus, Baked Alaska, Doctor Bitcoin Makes the Magic, Parhelion
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:3 minutes
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Completion Date:January 11, 2025
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
I am a film director (4 produced feature films) and novelist (3 published novels) and painter (10 solo exhibitions). My day job is working as an evolutionary anthropologist studying the ethics of virtual reality and mixed reality for the EU (12 peer-reviewed first-author or single-author research articles; 2 non-fiction books; 1 Ph.D. thesis!). I live in London.
“Londinium” is part of a larger feature project called “Madame Earth”. The lyrics/text were written a decade and a half ago whilst still in a relationship with a former partner. While no longer current in the romantic sense, the words still attest to a once deep love, and now as proof that the circumstance of losing a great romance can eventually heal into something else.