Little Grasses Crack Through Stone

We’ve screened both of Kate Graham’s previous short films: Alice 404 (LIFF2019) and Scrum (LIFF2020), so we’re very pleased to present her new prenatal experimental self-portrait this year. ‘The city waits and aches. The little grasses crack through stone, and they are green with life’ Sylvia Plath, Three Women (1962). The reflections of Clive Backhouse, a 60-year- old working-class northerner using the emotional anchor of one building provides a snapshot of his life, from a 9-year-old waiting outside a fish and chip shop, through the building’s evolution to become a high-end Café, the building has become a comfort-blanket woven with memories.