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Tailspin

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crissxross
on 7 November 2008
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Tailspin - a story to explore

by Christine Wilks

An old man’s Tinnitus and partial deafness is a source of friction between him and his family yet he stubbornly refuses to contemplate treatment or hearing aids. His adult daughter, with two girls of her own, has always been hurt and mystified by his angry reactions. But the key to his behaviour lies deep in the past.

Created in Flash, Tailspin is a multi-layered, animated fiction, in which sound plays a significant role. Although non-linear, the narrative is constructed as a series of regions for the reader to travel around and through. So there is a loose itinerary and a particular destination to reach. The story takes place over the span of one family meal-time but the past is ever present. To read Tailspin takes about 15 mins.

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Fitting the Pattern

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crissxross
on 13 July 2008
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Cutting through memories, pinning down facts, stitching fabrications, unpicking the past - an interactive, animated memoir, created in Flash, exploring aspects of my relationship with my dressmaking mother.

Life’s mysteries are rarely uncovered by a logical, linear process of deduction. You arrive at answers, ideas, suspicions, intuitions… haphazardly, in fragments. Over time you build the picture, piece by piece, shuffling and rearranging, until you start to see a pattern emerging. Fitting the Pattern attempts to replicate this experience, hence it’s a memoir in pieces for you to explore…

I gave a live performance of this piece last month at the Creative Writing and New Media MA showcase at the IOCT Salon at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. That was fun!

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