7th October 2009. Paul Rooney, Bellevue 2009, 22 minutes video. At the Bluecoat.

At the start of the film Bill looks disillusioned as if he is on drugs, maybe hospital drugs. Advertising meeting. Lowry's pain and alcoholism, psychiatric hospital. Bill plays Lowry. He has the shakes, probably from drinking. Bill Plays the main actor as well as the actor in the advertising meeting. In the meeting he looks confused as he See's himself on the television. Once the woman who leads the meeting turns the television off, Bill gets up from his chair and goes to the window to have a long hard think. He looks deluded, rough, dirty, depressed, left alone in the meeting room. While everyone else goes outside. Actors from the meeting reenact what it was like for Lowry to be in a mental hospital. They act as though they have a mental illness. They get guided around the grounds outside. Bill waves a flag about, probably something to do with ships. ''Ships full of fools.'' Bill walks along the roof, cold, deluded, and wet. ''The world must justify itself.'' While on the roof he goes in various moods such as being calm, quiet and smug, he also talks to the camera rather smug. Bill walks off into the fields at the end of the film. Might resemble getting away from the madness of the mental hospital. Bill never actually went onto the roof etc, he imagined it all with his crazy mind, he was still in the meeting room at the end. This makes me question was everything that happened in the film imagined or did things actually happen?

The film was interesting but quite disturbing at times, as the actor looked ill. The film was confusing at times as it kept going back and forward in time. I think the artist has portrayed Lowry very well in the film. Bill was the perfect actor to portray Malcolm Lowry.