WE’RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT IAIN DOUGLAS AND MARK COVERDALE’S LATEST COLLABORATION: GALLERY EYES, A STORY ABOUT DREAD, REGRET, AND ALIENATION.
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Clocking at approximately nine minutes, Gallery eyes (2022) was shot with/in Grand Theft Auto V. As for previous projects that we ‘ve presented last week week, this too began on a written page, and specifically with Coverdale’s verse, which is based on a series of conversations that he witnessed.
Coverdale elaborates:
The text is from a series of six poetic, narrative 500 word 'plays' exploring the impact of trauma experienced in childhood/early teenage years. Sections of another, Penalties, were used in Facing the wolf. Gallery eyeswas inspired by snippets of an overhead conversation whilst on a train between Manchester and Preston. The text is a noir interpretation of a backstory, described in a descriptive and intentionally ambiguous style (just to add that Juliette Bravo was a popular TV police drama when we were young). Other references include Brighton Rock, the Suede song "We are the pigs" and Abstract Expressionist painting. The series is set in 1990s Britain and covers a wide range of harrowing subjects, which are never over-explained [...] We hope to explore the themes of the others in the future.
Matteo Bittanti
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