Suite Blitz

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Would you like to see my home videos?

Around the year 2000, I was on a Film Studies course. Aside from watching (and re-watching, and reading about, and reading more about, and trying to write about) a series of classic movies...there were some editing suites.

The kind that worked by copying sections of one VHS tape onto another - obsolete and clunky even at the time, I spent far too long experimenting on them with whatever source material came to hand.

So here's the first of my experiments to survive. The soundtrack is an untitled track from the end of Yello's "One Second" album, and the video is recut from a film called "Swoon", about Leopold and Loeb.

If you don't remember the case, they were gay jewish intellectuals (and sort-of lovers) who tried to prove their superiority by committing the perfect crime - kidnapping a young boy, killing him and purposely leaving clues...for the police to miss.

The irony is, the duo left plenty of non-deliberate clues, and the police caught them easily. The case has inspired several other films, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope".

So, we'll see what YouTube makes of the copyright issues, and if they yank it after a week, well, you've still got a brief snippet of film studies.

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