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Poem

Poem

1m

November 15, 1971 (53 years ago)

Overview

A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and sholders of a woman, a crumbling Victorian chimney stack, a forlorn row of houses, cobblestones, discarded rubbish, and a final tracking shot of a high wall.

ActorAge thenAge now
William Hoyland

William Hoyland

voiceover

Birthday: January 1, 1943

28 January 1, 2017 (74)