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MONDAY

INT. UNIVERSITY ART AND MEDIA BUILDING - FOYER - DAY
Built as a school in the early 20th century. Closed, allowed to fall into disrepair, and inhabited by pigeons. Then refurbished in the new century.

On the righthand side of the entrance, there is a small space with white walls on three sides. The CELL is empty, apart from some small drifts of bluish grey FLUFF along the righthand edge where the wall meets the floor. The overhead lights are switched OFF. The double doors to the building are BROKEN, one door has been JAMMED OPEN by the CLEANERS.

THE NEXT DAY - TUESDAY

INT. LECTURERS’ OFFICE - AFTERNOON
From a box by her desk, WOMAN selects a square cardboard BOX closed with brown parcel tape. The label is Fresh red, white and deep yolk yellow. It says: Eastman Colour High Speed Negative FILM 7294: this stock was discontinued in 1986, and replaced with 7292 Tungsten, EI 320. CAT 139 3123. Handwritten on one side in shaky blue ink: OSOTH 94 11 Feb 85, and in spidery black ink: 300ft Recan 8 Mar 85.

WOMAN extracts a silver can with old fashioned white cloth tape stuck around the join between top and bottom. She unpeels the sticky tape, opens the can and takes out a roll of unexposed blank 16mm FILM. The film is double perf, SHINY BLACK on the outer side, dull flat browny pink MANNEQUIN FLESH on the inner - the slightly repellent colour of unprocessed emulsion.

INT. FOYER - CONTINUOUS
The overhead lights are switched OFF. WOMAN fixes one end of the film at WAIST HEIGHT to the lefthand edge of the ‘room’ with a drawing pin, and stretches the film to the lefthand corner, parallel to the floor: a straight black horizontal line along the wall.

She then arranges a loose LOOP, up to the roll of film wound on a core, which she places on top of a white PLINTH, left over from the previous inhabitant of this space.

WOMAN leaves through the broken door, which is JAMMED OPEN.

THE NEXT DAY - WEDNESDAY

INT. SECOND FLOOR CORRIDOR - EVENING
A private view for the exhibition MANIFESTATIONS OF PLACE is in progress.

MANUEL
That film in the lobby downstairs... what’s that all about then?

INT. FOYER - CONTINUOUS
The overhead lights are switched OFF. The doors have been BLOCKED shut by SECURITY.

THE NEXT DAY - THURSDAY

INT. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION BUILDING - CLASSROOM - LATE MORNING
The WRITING SPACES lecture is in progress. WOMAN is sitting in the front row, next to her on the left, GABBY is drawing a small DIAGRAM in WOMAN’s notebook with a blue biro, to demonstrate how to CROCHET.

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INT. UNIVERSITY ART AND MEDIA BUILDING - FOYER - AFTERNOON
WOMAN switches the overhead LIGHTS ON. At first they have an underwatery green hue, which shifts to warm yellow. Now the space is a stage in waiting. She leaves through the broken door, which is JAMMED OPEN.

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INT. HABERDASHERY SHOP, PLYMOUTH CITY CENTRE - LATER
Haberdashery Fabrics & More occupies half of what once was the ground floor of Barclays Bank.

HABERDASHER, a woman, is helping WOMAN, who is BROWSING the racks. She chooses 2 reels of strong white cotton, a pack of 5 darning needles, and some thin white crochet yarn, and a crochet hook.

WOMAN
Tomorrow, I will make a film.

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