Working Title: All Good Boys Despise Froots

The young people that mostly comprise Tales Of The…, the Nirish genre-fiction blog collective, were roped into contributing to the recent Belfast One Minute Film Festival by someone. I believe it was me, as I don’t have a camera.

In one afternoon, it was agreed that we would write and record as many one minute films as we could possibly. In the end, though, we wrote and recorded slightly fewer than we could possibly; I attribute this to very interesting radio documentary about the Derry Walls that came on in Mr. Costello’s car.

If I recall correctly, three films were recorded in all. Maybe four even. And, of course, all the busy contributors missed the submission deadline. However, they will all appear, at weekly intervals, on www.talesofthe.com and things started, at the end of January, with A Serious Matter, a piece starring the excellent Mr. Andrew Croskery and my own Mr. Costello. More will follow.

This week, they posted the following: Robbery for a Minute. In it, one can see m’colleague, Mr. Costello, and myself acting roles not dissimilar to our own characters. It is a veritable cinema of verite. This is something Mr. Costello has threatened to do at every rehearsal since we first played music together at the ages of 15.

Thanks must be extended to Mr. Jim McMorro who edited the whole show. I don’t pretend to know what the music is, but it certainly makes the film exciting, if not listenable.