Martin Lugg

An elegy on the death of the film-maker's mother. Fragments from dreams, nightmares and memories combine with natural sound and landscape in this short film poem "a myriad of instances in transit" M. Maziere, Independent Media. Through various texts and spoken diaries oblique reference is made to the persistence of the imagination; the dark, wild wood of Dante's Inferno with Paolo and Francescs buffeted on an infernal breeze, whilst an iconoclasic re-depiction of a Renaissance painting of the deposition by Raphael, describes an age in which the reality of death and grief were less hidden.

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Halfway between unbiased pornographic cinema and denouncing social cinema, Cling Film travels humorously and recklessly through a catalogue of sexual encounters and mishaps to take to task the media's repressive approach to its coverage of HIV infection and AIDS before the turn of the millennium. An energetic and frontal attack on censorship and its bedfellows: prudishness, guilt and shame.

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