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(Photo: Patrick MacKenzie)
Video, Hyde, August, 2004. (20mins DVCAM)
There’s many a time when you could’ve gone along with things for an easy life, kept your mouth shut or not taken the bait. But you never. You stood up, stood out, and paid the price. Waiting for the headmaster in the world’s busiest corridor. ‘Why does it always have to be me?’ But, underneath the heroic individualism and kamikaze self-sacrifice we all hide at least one persistent memory where someone, (the one who needed it least), got it big time, and we never did a thing to stop it. Worse, we joined in, and we liked it.
In ‘Small Talk’ PK (Brendan Thomason) gets someone else’s just desserts cos he listens to the wrong music and wears the wrong clothes. Jade (Stacey Lancate) sees it coming. She claims to see other things too, and does her best to alter the course, but at this stage, and in this place, she’s not the one who’s listened to. In an otherwise happy alcopop tangent the cost of cool for Jade (Gemma Evers-Buckland) is very, very high.
A whispered word or a pointed finger can be all that it takes to condemn
an entire adolescence to the shadows; to the places reserved for ‘the
weirdos’. But let’s face it, to become an insider, you have
to put someone out. (Synopsis
by Paddy Wagon)
