James Menelaus Rush





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- THE THORN IN THE FLESH

- GUMSUCKER

- YACKANDANDAH
 




All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it,that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so despertely sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot leave without and know we cannot live within.

(James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time)





COCOLOCODOCO                                     11’39”                                             2019



COCOLOCODOCO

Teo In A Tree Films | London Film School

Writer/Director/Co-Editor – James Menelaus Rush
Producer: Alex Hagani
Director of Photography - Jaffar Raza Jafri
Editor - Sheherezade El Moumni
Sound - Vera Stone

featuring
Helen Statman and Trevor Stuart
https://cocoloco.co.uk/
SYNOPSIS


Cocoloco believes in poetry, cinema, tennis, laughter, sex over lunch, lunch over sex, parties, dinners, oysters, red wine, sashimi, fresh orange juice, marmite, vegemite, Lenny Bruce, Radio 4, dolphins, volcanoes, lavatorial humour, crop rotation, dressing up, schadenfreude, nudes descending staircases, Diogenes, the muse, the news, the hypotenuse, authenticity, appropriation, Alfred Jarry, 44, synchronicity, serendipity, sunrise, the specific, the general, Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett, El Triunfo de la Muerte, the end, for now…