Images from Ken

Images from Ken

 

The sun sets on the horizon like a stained bathroom mirror, while Ann-Margret sings to drive Tchaikovsky to drink, and the 1812 booms out.

Deaf, dumb and blind Tommy wrestles naked with Oliver Reed, drinking whisky as the lapping tide rolls in.

Amanda Donohoe jams on China Blue’s blonde nylon wig and fucks a whole battalion of Nazi soldiers on Roderick Usher’s rattling coffin.

Gustav Mahler battles the Franken-Wagner with a sword forged from his own Magen David and regrown foreskin, so Glenda Jackson can paint the scene in tones of Derbyshire rain.

Hordes of screaming nuns tear Lord Byron to opium-addled pieces, while Hitler’s fluffy white kitten uncaringly washes her paws and curls up to sleep.

Salome paints herself blue and snake-dances with a naked Georgie Hale along the shore of Lake Windermere, and fields burn in the distance.

And behind it all
Setting fire to irrelevant reviews full of ‘auteur’, ‘bête noire’ and ‘enfant terrible’
Champagne in hand, megaphone in the other
The shock-haired prodigy laughs out loud and yells, “Cut!”

 

July 2023