For English Lang OFF_ readers, a rare treat – something you can’t yet read – Piotr Czerwinski’s recent novel about migrant life in Dublin has been published to wide acclaim in Poland… OFF_ are now trying to do something about it being translated to Ingleesh. Fingers crossed, the interview below will also meet the same fate soon;
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Riverside Studios, The Barbican, BFI Southbank, Tate Modern, Prince Charles Cinema, Tricycle Cinema, West London Synagogue…
If that list of locations isn’t getting you curious, the full film line up should;
the winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Polish Film Festival, Borys Lankosz’s Reverse, Michal Rosa’s Scratch, Jacek Boruch’s All That I Love, Bartek Konopka’s Oscar shortlisted, Rabbit a la Berlin, Xawery Zulawski’s Snow White, Russian Red, Marcin Wrona’s My Flesh My Blood and Pawel Borowski’s Zero.
click on the logo to the right to enter Kinoteka…
- For God’s sake… let’s finish… enough for now?… – thought the man with short hair and glasses.
- We need many more flowers to be walking beautifully… – thought the woman in a black biker
jacket, skinny black jeans and black suede boots. This is not her favourite outfit… today, though,
this is the only thing she could wear… leather jacket, black underwear, black jeans, black boots…
only in this outfit – this is what she felt, feels and will feel… only in this outfit does she feel today
enough appropriate distance to that which has happened…. in thought, speech, deed and
dereliction…
Leaning across the passenger seat, she opened the door of her black Toyota for the man.
At first he sat with his back to her.
In today’s Guardian, the book’s death knell rang…
Is the current financial crisis an accident or a planned event? What is the motive for a global financial meltdown? What was the motive behind the 1929 stock market crash? Who control’s our money supply and who really owns America and the rest of the world? …
oops, wrong “Paul McGuire, best selling author of…”
We meant to let you know that the other Paul McGuire, who is one of the writers in our soon to be printed OFF_ANTHOLOGIA #1, has been shortlisted in the most recent Willesden Herald Short Story Competition.
If you want misspelt conspiracy theories and hallelujah prophecies in a three-piece suit, click the foto…
If you want excellent writing, go to the Willesden.
For P.O.
It’s salty and bitter, everything sticky
like Post-its of the subconscious, I was here,
my club is to score 4 x one more
goal. It is reached from within, softening
the essence. The final whistle, then trams
besieged with hands, no scheduled stops,
this is no Way of the Cross, no one here will put a finger
inside your wound.
And as the drama begins, who will cover
the rest? No small change, only big
fish, this is post-
modernism after all – technologies and theories, requiring
zero thought? Are you not satisfied with
the route from the stadium home,
back to where you live? Your preferences are for stripped
staircases, dungeons, your sense of balance disturbed yet again?
… generated by recent email exhanges with fellow small print runners…
OFF_ does not beg for mercy or pity, just for being foreign, translated or from far off.
But being an outsider is a reality. Being a migrant is hard work. Being off and apart and against and all that is a reality we choose to confront, without trying to call on it like some disability coupon.
