North East Film Gets Edgy

For The Cultural Thing

Ryan Pilot

Explicitly erotic underground film brilliantlove made its North East debut this week.

Produced by Newcastle-based Pinball Films and directed by one third of the organisation, James Horner, it premiered in June at New York's Tribeca Film Festival and also played this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.

But it came home to play at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle last Tuesday and also played Thursday.

Set in a remote Teesside town, the Northern Film and Media funded film follows young lovers, Manchester and Noon as they spend most of the first half of the film naked and blissfully having sex.

But their relationship is put to the test when naïve Manchester gets caught up in a world of art and pornography.

Speaking after the first screening, the film's writer, Sean Conway said: “I discovered the word erotology, which is the study of sexual love and love making and thought 'shit, I wish I'd have done that at A-level!'

“So one of ideas was that and the other idea was a pastiche of the art world, which was called 'Fuck Art' initially until brilliantlove became a fusion, an amalgamation of both.

“But obviously as a writer you should write about what you know and I don't know a great deal about the art world but sex and being in love is my specialist subject.”