NEW FILM: LET RIP: THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (Lee Campbell, 2020)
LET RIP: THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (Lee Campbell, 2020)
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LET RIP: THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (2020) (5 mins and 48 secs) was made with vintage footage of a 1996/1997 football match between Coventry City and Aston Villa, sound and moving image recordings made on a Sony Ericsson Cybershoot K800i mobile phone between 2005-2006, drawings and paintings made between 2005-2007 and 2018-2020 and photographic stills and moving image recordings made between 2011-2020 on various iPhones. This short film speaks about huge differences in memory about one or more football matches that me and my Dad watched live in a stadium/listened to live on the radio whilst driving in the 1990s. Not overly confessional but relaying frank autobiographic details of me and my Dad’s actual lived shared experience, the film reveals how our own versions of events are so contrasting. As a gay teenager growing up in 1990s suburban Britain, I had to come to terms with my homosexuality and the realisation of finding attractive. Whilst Dad could be open back then about how he experienced us enjoying football together, it is only now, as this film reveals, can I be honest and open about my preoccupations; that I found football a means to explore homosexual desire in secret.
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