The public is invited to a special screening of
An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common, a new interactive installation work by MarkDavid Hosale.
Presented on four screens simultaneously, the content of
An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common is a film divided into four tightly wound stories. The plot points of the four stories are strategically written so that the stories can be mixed and matched, and read backwards or forwards. Audience members can change how the stories are read interactively via an electronic ouija board.
The story of an An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common centers around Rosemary Brown, a medium who is communicating with deceased composers and writing down their latest works. Much of the story takes place in Rosemary’s lounge, where she lives near the common of a working class borough of London called Tooting Bec. With the help of her friends in the world of the living, Rosemary has been able to arrange an interview with the BBC’s third programme.
But for Rosemary things are not as simple as they seem. Soon she will find out that the interview is just a ruse, and her plans of sharing music from beyond are going to be derailed. As enemies become allies and friends become foes, the ultimate question will be, “Are you a skeptic or a believer?” Either way you choose you will find that in the end there is no right or wrong, truth or lie. Instead, the pure essence of the story lies somewhere... in between.
