Still At Large

2015, 10 minutes

Architectural writer Nicholas Still returns to Holy Island but is he alone?

The work at first seems to be a televisual essay programme about Holy Island, written and presented by architecture writer Nicholas Still. But there is another voice in the screening space as well as that of Still, a female voice at the rear of the space which initially appears to be that of a director or editor, which describes a figure up to his neck in the sea (in the manner of one of St. Cuthbert’s prayer methods), on the run from an unspoken crime. The fugitive the voice describes seems to be a self-righteous violent murderer given to sentimental ‘hyperthermal’ reveries about his childhood, a Robin Hood TV series and sainthood. Still seems to become more aware of the voice as his performances for the camera continues. Is the figure the voice describes lurking somewhere around Holy Island? Or is he in another realm entirely?

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