Film Screening: Monster’s Walk in Ten Chapters

Many of you will remember Lilo – a loveable monster-like character created by artist-in-residence Irineu Destourelles as part of his project Does it Fall from the Skies Above. In Spring 2022, Lilo was spotted around Huntly with a film crew in tow and since then the artist was been working with filmmaker Daniel Hughes and other project partners to make Monster's Walk in Ten Chapters – an experimental short film featuring a fairytale written by the artist in response to Huntly-born writer George MacDonald’s book ‘The Princess and the Goblin’, a children’s fantasy novel originally published in 1872. 

 

The first screening where we shared the moving image took place on Friday 20th January at 6pm followed by drinks. The film then played on loop on Saturday 21st January, 11am-5pm in the Huntly Library meeting room. 

 

Synopsis by the artist
Monster's Walk in Ten Chapters is an outcome of a residence that Irineu undertook with Deveron Projects in Huntly where he immersed himself in the work of Huntly born writer, and pioneer of fantasy literature, George MacDonald. Throughout the film a dark monster enters, explores and abruptly leaves a town that he seems simultaneously unfamiliar and familiar with. As the Monster's trajectory through different urban and green spaces and states of mind unfolds, an off-screen narrator tells a disjointed tale of broken love between beings from a different reality that ultimately reveals the Monster's plight. Drawing on Irineu's engagement with issues of creolity, blackness and diaspora, the film dwells on loss as an intrinsic state of being whilst referencing structural film and representation of otherness in popular culture.

 

Created, Directed and Performed by Irineu Destourelles
Featuring Narration by Maureen Ross
Costume Designer: Zephyr Liddell / Costume Maker: Emily Smit-Dicks
Director of Photography and Editor: Daniel Hughes
Sound Recordist and Mixer: Mark Readhead
Story Editor: Lavendhri Arumugam