Ben Crowe

Short Films

je suis ici

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Ben Crowe - Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer/Camera/Editor

Preti Taneja - Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer

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A poem by UK-based poet Sophie Mayer inspired by je suis ici From HER VARIOUS SCALPELS Two Scenarios for Short Films: JE SUIS ICI

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Intro: driving through vineyards. Music: Edith Piaf. Jaunty.
Where are we? Ici. Here. At last. After
here in my phrase book: hot. House.

Then hungry.

1. A mountain village -
I am learning the words of things: montagne,
magasin. Ferme. Still a shop when it's closed?
The street is empty with. Pierres. Chiens. Soleil.
Comprenez-vous francais? I wish I knew the French

for swallow.

HVS
HVS

2. A market.
Marche. Also, marcher: to walk. Ca marche bien.
It goes well. I walk. My stride rhythmic:
Bien. Rien. Can you eat a smell? A taste?

A place?

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3. A pristine untouched salad.
Plat: a plate or meal. But more.
Art, the placement comme ca. Angles. Muscles. Flesh.
Fresh. Untouched. If I eat, will this be ici

forever?

4. Van Gogh Cafe, Arles.
Days proceed by frames: windows (car, hotel, cafe).
By guidebook, painting, memory, viewfinder, postcard.
Frame. Ferme. Everything here seen a million times.

Take it.

5. Looking through cards with a pot of salt to hand.
Sel. Once currency. Pot of gold to stop
meat from turning. Like love: keeps things fresh,
red and present. Fire. Running through me -
freshwater worth its salt. A day's grain (or
grace). Its taste. The touch of it to

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my tongue.

6. Salt mountains seen from a fortress whose shadow on ramparts looks like teeth.
Bite into blue. Make dents. Impossible. Untouchable.
All I have wanted: sky, sun. To see
the frame. And beyond it. To open
the eyes of my brightest wings and turn

my face.

7. She licks the stamp and places it on the blank card before posting.

HVS
HVS

(in)to the sun.

Reproduced with kind permission from the author
http://www.sophiemayer.net/

Mayer, S. (2009) Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman Books, Exeter)

You can order Her Various Scalpels at  Shearsman or on  Amazon

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