I'M NOT RUNNING A MORTUARY
Allow me to explain why I am bastardising the cinema experience of sitting in silence.
1. CultPlex asked me to.
2. For financial gain.
3. For the love of film. I don't think people will believe me when I say, I genuinely did not intend for film to become my entire personality and career. I have always enjoyed film and then just over two years ago now I downloaded Letterboxd and it revolutionised my film watching experience. Watching film for me became, a sport, a social interaction, a guilty pleasure, a bit of me-time, a lifestyle. Accidentally I'd been letting film creep into my academia and comedy for a while but at this point, and especially in the last year I've hit full throttle. I've become known as the film-obsessed comedian. When I started to do comedy, I never thought that would be my USP, I thought it might be that I was loud or that I wore a nice blazer, but it's that I'm loud and wear a James Spader t-shirt. Watching films is simultaneously the thing I enjoy doing most alone and sharing with other people. When I'm alone I love watching shit that is just for me, as someone who has spent a lot of their life being a people pleaser, rediscovering the thrill of watching films just for one thirty-second shot of a good-looking actor I'm swooning for has helped me take time for myself. I watch good films alone too, and it's the perfect time to check in with myself. Why has that film effected me like this, why did I relate to that part, why did this make me cry? I suppose it's my form of meditation. I show other people films for the rollercoaster of watching their reactions, I genuinely feel giddy at the thought of it. How will they react? And if they react like I hope - there isn't a rush quite like it! It's a gorgeous release to be a in room with people you love and letting your primal responses flow together. I love being with the girls shredding the sofa beneath us to pieces as the love interest backs away from kissing the one! I love grabbing my best friend's arm, as if we are anchoring one another to reality as a special effect in a horror film absolutely blows us away and we must pick our jaws off the floor and reattach them to eat our popcorn. But most of all, I love what discussions it opens up, what deep dark secrets you can uncover about a human just from the way their eye twinkles at a certain type of romantic display or the way their hairs stand to attention from certain forms of tension. I know so much more about the people I love from the films we have watched together. It's such a powerful art form personally and socially and I just want other people to see that too, I guess. OH and I get an enormous kick out of people finding the little running commentary I often have when showing someone a film, funny. With this behind closed doors and DVD MENU SCREAM at CroppaChoppa's Slumber Party I have learnt that I'm pretty good at convincing everyone to see my favourite and least favourite films through my eyes and make them laugh while doing it.
And so I'M NOT RUNNING A MORTUARY was birthed, the show that will hopefully tie all of this filmic joy into one. If you like the idea of a communal film watching experience that adds comedy, action and energy to the run time perhaps pick up a ticket.
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