I was commissioned to respond to an artwork by artist Sukaina Kabba titled Jealousy: Now the Shadow, installed at Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto.

Following a series of conversations with the artist and the influence of being deep in the throes of a three-week intensive acting course in Greece, I wrote a screen adaptation from an extract of La Jalousie, a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, published in 1957. It's textt hat has deeply influenced Sukaina and we discussed it into the long hot summer evenings.

In my adaptation, the camera movements were ornamental and dense with description, serving almost as another character, embodying the silent voyeurism of the narrator, a jealous husband observing the interactions of his wife with their neighbour in their plantation home.

The full adaptation extract published by Mercer Union can be read here.

I was commissioned to respond to an artwork by artist Sukaina Kabba titled Jealousy: Now the Shadow, installed at Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto.

Following a series of conversations with the artist and the influence of being deep in the throes of a three-week intensive acting course in Greece, I wrote a screen adaptation from an extract of La Jalousie, a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, published in 1957. It's textt hat has deeply influenced Sukaina and we discussed it into the long hot summer evenings.

In my adaptation, the camera movements were ornamental and dense with description, serving almost as another character, embodying the silent voyeurism of the narrator, a jealous husband observing the interactions of his wife with their neighbour in their plantation home.

The full adaptation extract published by Mercer Union can be read here.