Bøker av David Banning

A vivid and dreamlike account of a journey made to Prospect Cottage and garden, Dungeness, Kent, England in August 2022. It is both a meditation on the life and legacy of Derek Jarman, his renowned career as an artist, writer and film-maker and lament for a lost generation. The bleak landscape of Dungeness, dreamily familiar and yet dislocated at the same time. Vast, empty and intense all at once. While present in every fold and drape of the landscape, the nuclear Camelot keeps a silent watch moored in the firmament. An omnipresent ghost beached in the wilderness with a toxic haze that dazzles as it blows across the Ness.

Generation X Point Zero - Quit your Job - Tune out the Entire Human Race...Trapped inside a culture of booze, drugs and cracked aspirations, the narrator's attempt for anonymity amidst the chaos of society begins to collapse. Scarred by the September 11th attacks, the subsequent War on Terror and fall out of austerity, a stuttering journey towards disappearance is laden with insomnia, rootlessness and bereavement. A melancholy poetic spanning a fifteen year period reveals the deadening walls of a South-East London estate, the stifling geography of the Lake District and Brighton's labyrinthine edginess. Each encounter - a bar, corner shop, gallery, library or hospital ward is increasingly filled with surreal menace. Ultimately, the threat is real, in a world populated with unease, confusion and sadness.Falling Away is an achingly personal and deeply political work that speaks to the haunting present and our desperate need for hope...