American Cinematographer - July 2005 - 83

Tongue Bully Blends Poetry with Ethereal Images
by Stephanie Argy
To achieve
unusual

some

imagery

for the short film

Tongue Bully,
cinematographer
Marcus Elliott
used

one

of his

inventions,
the Art Box, to
own

photograph
performance
artist Learie E.A.
McNicolls

performing a
poem in Havana,
Cuba.The top

photo is a frame
grab from the
film, and the

photo below is a
promotional still
of McNicolls

In the Canadian short film Tongue

Bully, dancer and performance artist
Learie E.A. McNicolls performs a
poem on the streets of Havana. Directed
by Annie Bradley and shot by cine¬
matographer Marcus Elliott, the film
consists largely of distorted, almost
ethereal images that Elliott created with

knew she wanted to shoot the

architecture. She believed Cuba's simi¬

Cuba. "I don't know

larly rich historical tradition would make
the location appropriate for the material.
"Learie's work is about the imprint of our
emotional histories and the baggage we
carry from our past into our future," she

never

project in
why, because I'd

been to Cuba," she admits.

However, Bradley had lived in
Europe, where she felt that centuries of
stories were always in the air and in the

on

the streets.

Though both
images were
taken with the
Art Box, Elliott
notes that the

promotional still
has not been
color-corrected
to match the film.

the Art Box, an oversized box camera
that he designed and built to capture
some

of the beautiful aberrations of

simple lenses. "It's

BAEMrnalaodricoleiufyts.

cphooutrtsesy
and

blatantly home¬
very primitive
mechanisms to undo a century of optical
research and technology," he explains
wryly.
Bradley first had the idea for the
project when she and Elliott attended a
group performance to see a choreogra¬
pher whose work they would be filming
the following week. McNicolls was also
on the program, and upon seeing his
performance, Bradley knew she had to
make a movie with him. "I thought, 'If I
don't put this on film, I will regret it for
the rest of my life.' He was that
compelling just doing a poem." She also
made device that

a

uses

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