2007 /
The City Speaks:
I am not you are not me
Joe King & Rosie Pedlow
written by Mike Walker
An old man in the grip of dementia finds himself lost on Hackney’s busy Kingsland Road. Who is he, what is he trying to escape from? A lyrical journey through a familiar landscape that is at once known and unknown – a palimpsest in which the past is seen as a reflection of the present, in which the memory of a terrible crime is glimpsed in reflections and shadows, hints and muttered phrases. I am not you are not me is an existential detective story written on the glass and concrete of a street that leads from City to cemetery.
commissioned by /
Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and BBC Radio Drama
Visit the FLAMIN website for details of broadcast and exhibition
The City Speaks is an innovative collaborative project developed by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and BBC Radio Drama. Artist film-makers and writers, collaborating with acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd, composer David Pickvance and specialist sound engineers, will create a 2 x 45 minute collaborative audio visual artworks that will form a centre-piece of the BBC Radio 4 season in 2008 celebrating London as a great cosmopolitan city. The project will provide artist filmmakers with an opportunity to collaborate with professional writers, and will enable writers to work outside of traditional radio play conventions. The work which will be composed of 6 x 14 minute audio-visual works, is conceived as a truly innovative multi-disciplinary and cross-platform artwork for contemporary media to be presented across a range of contexts. In 2008 it will be launched at the NFT, London, and broadcast nationally on BBC Radio 4 and across a number of digital and interactive broadcast platforms.
