Transcript of A Forest for the Neighbours, 16mm film, 2010
(Sound of seagulls on chimney stack)
(sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
C1: You're a DJ. She comes up with this one record has finished. She talks right into your ear, it's loud in there. Your heads are adjacent. You have to put
C2: Ok
(Sound of camera stops. Sound of camera being wound)
C2: So if you just take it from your heads are adjacent please Conal, and um
C1: Mmm hmm
C2: Ok. Rolling
(Sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
C1: Your heads are adjacent. You have to put your ear to her mouth. She faces your ear while you look out across the room, over the dancing bodies. They’re dancing to the next record. But she's talking about the last one. It sits still in front of you now. While she tells you the story about it. This record, she says
(Sound of camera stops. Sound of camera being wound)
C2: So if you go from the last sentence
C1: While she tells you the story about it?
L: (coughs) Also can you pause for a second, just after I move my hand out of the way
C1: Ok
C2: Yes
L: Just so my hand’s not in shot
C2: Ok. Ok?
(Sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
C1: While she tells you the story about it. This record, she says – she loves it. It came out in 1980. She was an adolescent. She lived in a Scottish new town. She was a goth. She would stand in her bedroom with her brother and perform this song. They performed it for the neighbours. The neighbours stood out in the street
(Sound of camera stops. Sound of camera being wound)
C2: Ok. So if you take it from they performed it
C1: Mmm hmm
C2: Thanks
L: Is that 15 foot now or is that 10 foot? 10 metres sorry
C2: 12
L: 12
C2: Ok
(Sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
C1: They performed it for the neighbours. The neighbour stood out in the street on the Wimpey estate and watched through the window while she dashed between bass and keyboard. It was The Cure, this song. A Forest. She's telling you this story and now you're looking down. At the next record turning. Because it's going to finish soon
(sound of camera stops)
C2: Ok
(Sound of camera being wound)
C2: That was good timing
(Sound of camera being wound)
C2: Emm. Ok
(Sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
C1: because it's going to finish soon. It's nearly at the end. Moving closer to the shiny black silent section between songs. She's still telling you the story and the record is turning. The name of the song is Both Ends Burning.
(Sound of camera stops. Sound of camera being wound.)
(Pinging sound)
C2: Whoops. Ok
(Sound of camera rolling. Sound of handclap)
(Sound of dog barking. Sound of camera stops)