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Gang stalker (lies in the cuckoo spotlight)

Tragic and Comic
Gang stalker lies The Cuckoo Spotlight
fame is the name which has an insane game
To Junk the brain
numbs his pain
unaccountable the cuckoo remain
voiding all
of a spotlight
denying the vulnerable
to stand
a chance at all
this is the cuckoo who writes the fall
my nest my home
my mind kicked out
no phone
no way of communicating what happens
when you are truly alone
just like the cuckoo
but not in nature
his way
was always costing me
a right to stay

Lies in the cuckoo spotlight

A documentary of how a malignant actor misleads an artist to his near death 'lies in the cuckoo spotlight's' devilry has a hand in grooming the artist who has star's in his eyes for the central protagonist actor with intention of poisoning his subconscious. The one that holds the snake is the snake by the hands of time or time's end for whom? Who is posing as friend? The actor or the artist the audience must decide must choose at poems end
it's like sending hate mail to your inner self
Tragic and comic lies in the cuckoo spotlight

  • John-Paul Francis Gibbs
    Director
  • Ashley Artus
    Writer
  • John-Paul Francis Gibbs
    Writer
  • John-Paul Francis Gibbs
    Producer
  • Ashley Artus
    Key Cast
    "Ashley Artus"
  • John-Paul Francis Gibbs
    Key Cast
    "Bosch the artist"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    40 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - John-Paul Francis Gibbs

I studied at Brighton film school art direction and i've been at the University of the West of England. I am a Post Graduate in Fine Art BA Honours Degree and attended in 2000-2005. I have always had a curious mind for the arts my investigative approach has led me to pioneer graphics in film production. In my spare time i undertake oil paint. I have interest in art direction and dressing sets. I art designed one film called Hedda Gabler where by i was asked to cover any anachronisms and dress the sets to the portrayal of characters.

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Director Statement

A film documenting a man's mental health and his underhand ways of increasing fight to have his online presence rammed into the viewers face with Bertolt Brecht references in the manners or just bad manners of this unusual collaboration which i was subjected to by demand. You cannot rewrite history only add your own sweet brand of cheap sensationalism.
This is going to read like a war story of two idiots; a soul war which i could continue if i released that which is true...turns out we didn't share the same dream in this collaboration. He wanted acclaim and i enabled this with my production skills. I wanted to translate this into a story with production tools which describes lunacy and cacophany bombarding the viewer audibly and visually into something which describes his disturbing madness.
Art house mini movie (a film about a film) that is 'Lies in the cuckoo spotlight. It pairs an existential crisis that documents the lives of an artist and an actor both cuckoo for attention with their "friendship" a lie. Lies in the Cuckoo spotlight frames their context well - the age of fame bright lights and egos. One you wouldn't be able to take away from his kudos having worked with major production houses and the other - an lonely eccentric artist wannabe star as the other would put 'looking for fame'. He gages in his ego warp the fact that the artist likes to people please and uses him to his advantage to destroy him. After all with his experience he is a star and that comes with entitlement. His jealously and nefarious dismissal of the artist backfires.
The artist remains in the shadows of managing his ill health with hope of recovery. This means getting a sense of self back from the psychological assault from the cuckoo impostor who is the actor.
The actor continues to lay on thick his importance to the end of the film but no-one hears his screaming inside with his false self that 'Lies in the cuckoo spotlight'.
This is a film about a film which documents and describes in a subconscious unusual way the behaviours of the star in the cuckoo spotlight, laced with ego a law unto themselves there belongs an evil motive which becomes apparent to the viewer. Unease is the mood which guides you through a day in the life of a soul which exists like a parasite. This film was used as a way of increasing his screen presence....everyone move over for the cuckoo. Here you are in documentary a movie star...."next". I guess you cannot be bigger than a production which itself is a claim on tackling mental health yet translates as a bipolar coaster of a documentary which impacts the viewer on topics uncomfortable and sensitive which had to be drowned out by its production. The production was used to diminish the rants of the cuckoo and to add heightened presence to his madness.

What is madness anyway? An inability to be accountable? Or is it ego related in character or could it be genuine illness such as a chemical imbalance? Either way it could be stem from a bit of both. A sociopath gained access to my own breakdown at university 2002-03 wrote what he thought was a film dialogue which was going to help people with the mental health card. However, it simply won't. People with chemical imbalances need medication and people with personality disorders need cognitive therapy like acceptance and commitment therapy. This collaborative work just highlights a nothing, gaging negative attention for teenage like bad behaviour and poses as integral to blaming health services for mad people or society at large.

I am beginning to think of myself as someone that enables and people pleases to the point of enabling this kind of chaotic behaviour.
This film is no 'love bomb', but something with which to wake you up to the bizarre lie that is mental health in it's egoism. ill health is ill health but ill ego is another thing. He will cease ever to take responsibility or accountability where he got the material to write this prose and how it was used as an insensitive way to harness more damage my way.
A couple of idiots release a film
bring your headache capsules
and expect some cuckoo