When Germaine Dulac premiered his film The Seashell and the Clergyman in 1928, playwright Antonin Artaud, who penned the half-hour short's original scenario, is said to have heckled the screen, going so far as to call its director a "cow".
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Music: Steven Severin, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
When Germaine Dulac premiered his film The Seashell and the Clergyman in 1928, playwright Antonin Artaud, who penned the half-hour short's original scenario, is said to have heckled the screen, going so far as to call its director a "cow". If such confrontational behaviour sounds like a precursor to punk's assault on culture half a century later, a new score to the film by former Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steven Severin is all too appropriate.
