The Becoming Room: Filming Bion’s "A Memoir of the Future" by Meg Harris Williams

By Meg Harris Williams

The contents of this publication symbolize a sequence of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future, the first one being an unfinished movie started in India within the Eighties and directed by way of Kumar Shahani, "epic" artfilm maker, so much of whose movies were produced in Hindi. The movie used to be encouraged and initiated by means of Bombay psychoanalyst Udayan Patel, and subsidized by means of the Roland Harris academic belief. the solid of actors incorporated Jalal Agha, Tom adjust, Robert Burbage, Nicholas Clay, Neil Cunningham, Carol Drinkwater, Peter Firth, Nigel Hawthorne, Shona Morris, Jonathan web page (as a child), Angela Pleasence, Juliet Reynolds, and Alaknanda Samarth.

The filmscript and a statement are right here incorporated, including a story poem written for Alaknanda Samarth who performed the Ayah of Bion’s adolescence, and a playscript written for Tom adjust who performed the daddy. The play is because of be first played in Bombay and Delhi in February 2016.

An appendix reprints a psychoanalytic examine of Memoir by way of Donald Meltzer, who used to be heavily inquisitive about the construction of the unique film.

The publication is illustrated by way of screenshots from the movie and the publication comprises video extracts.

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AYAH: Oh yes, though there are one or two improvements which I mean to carry out. MOTHER (panicky): Oh! What are they? AYAH (gesturing toward MAN and the FATHER): Him, for example – old Chocolate Bar and his friends who’ve been raping this country. And I could teach that parson fellow a thing or two about death! FATHER: I’ve been given to believe that a moral – a total – conquest, is envisaged? MAN (as DEVIL): You have it wrong, sir. It is, let us say, not FILMSCRIPT: A MEMOIR OF THE FUTURE – K 49 quite a conquest of morality but a pacification.

Voice-over (BION): Like my tank many years later, it began a miserable crawl and then stopped. Yes Edna, you little beast: full stop – a proper pause. Voice-over (COLMAN): Unlike your father you didn’t pursue a scientific solution. The FATHER goes out; the AYAH fetches the BEARER who smothers the train with ghee. FILMSCRIPT: A MEMOIR OF THE FUTURE – J 43 Voice-over (COLMAN): You entrusted the toy to the superstitions of your Ayah who smeared it plentifully with ghee and set it down in the hot sun to absorb its energy.

MOTHER (panicky): Oh! What are they? AYAH (gesturing toward MAN and the FATHER): Him, for example – old Chocolate Bar and his friends who’ve been raping this country. And I could teach that parson fellow a thing or two about death! FATHER: I’ve been given to believe that a moral – a total – conquest, is envisaged? MAN (as DEVIL): You have it wrong, sir. It is, let us say, not FILMSCRIPT: A MEMOIR OF THE FUTURE – K 49 quite a conquest of morality but a pacification. Need there be any feel-ings if you can touch; imagination, if you can see; music, if you can … I mean, we will not let anything get in the way of pure sensuality.

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