It's not often I'd advocate YouTube for anything other than popular music videos (how archaic is that?) but when I discovered a very young Clive Barker had made a version of Salome I was intrigued. Finding out it was a short, I thought the 'Tube might be the best place to try it out.
I discovered a 17 and a half minute version last night. Although apparently ambient music has been added I was forced by circumstance to watch it silent, but the imagery more than made up for any deficiency in sound. Gloomy, spooky, projecting a dark beauty at times, it was inventive and absorbing,
Can't say whether there was any of Oscar in it - apart from the story line I didn't pick up on anything in particular. Interested to read that Clive cited Kenneth Anger as an influence. I was most reminded of Abel Ferrara's The Addiction which I saw recently. No particular reason other than morbid monochrome perhaps. The dance of the seven veils - if that was what was being represented - was especially emotive.
They were so lucky to have that cellar to use.
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