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Home » A Short Film based on The Escalator

A Short Film based on The Escalator

The One-Handed Clock

Produced and directed by Simon Peecock

The words in this piece, The One-Handed Clock, are taken from The Escalator and arranged, produced and directed by Simon Peecock with the help of actors Malcolm James, Alexandra Turchyn, Nathan Weller, Priscilla Gray and Daniel Johns.

The One-Handed Clock. A short film based on The Escalator novel.
The One-Handed Clock – a short film based on The Escalator

There is love as well as doubt in this short film. Love and uncertainty are themes, too, of Robert Harris’s novel Conclave, and the recent film of his book. Perhaps literature, film, music and fine art (Picasso’s Guernica was in response to nationalist, Nazi and Fascist bombing) are best placed to reveal our common humanity and balance out violence, certainty, hatred and bigotry.

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 349.3 cm × 776.5 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in), Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 349.3 cm × 776.5 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in), Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.

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