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Filmpoem 5 / Emily Melting

Alastair Cook

Emily Melting is written and read by Gérard Rudolf, erstwhile poet and South African actor based in Cape Town but late of Newcastle.

The poem is from Gérard’s debut poetry collection, Orphaned Latitudes, of which Anthony Joseph is quoted as saying “the poems move with muscle in the air… mesmerising and masterful.” Gérard described the poem as being “as much about a lost country as it is about people losing each other in the half remembered haze of a boyhood memory.”

Emily Melting was premiered in competition at the ZEBRA Film Poetry Festival in Berlin in 2010, screening subsequently at festivals in Riga, London, Colorado, Victoria, Glasgow, Edinburgh and others.

Alastair notes “This film seems to have become a cult favourite. It has been repeatedly request-screened and we have reports of it being used for teaching, mentoring and to illustrate the very essence of what a poetry-film can be.”

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Alastair Cook

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film and cinema

About this poem

Emily Melting is film collaboration with poet Gérard Rudolf, developing a set of ideas recently conceived in my films Scene and La Plage, both collaborative films, with Morgan Downie and Jane McKie respectively.

Emily Melting was screened in competition at the ZEBRA Film Poetry Festival in Berlin in October 2010.

The poem Emily Melting is from Gérard’s incredible new poetry collection, Orphaned Latitudes, of which Anthony Joseph is quoted as saying “the poems move with muscle in the air… mesmerising and masterful.” Gérard described the poem as being “as much about a lost country as it is about people losing each other in the half remembered haze of a boyhood memory.”

This film is the beginning of a series of work with Gérard, and we plan to write, produce and direct a feature length film in due course.

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Filmpoem 5/ Emily Melting from Alastair Cook on Vimeo.

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