Writing Margaret M. MacDonald Writing Margaret M. MacDonald

Inspired by the Spooky Season

I’m working on something new. I rarely talk about works in progress, feels like inviting in a curse, but something about the spooky season inspired me to share this image and snippet from my new venture into horror…

🩸 EAT 🩸 
“What if you woke up to discover you had just eaten your neighbour?” 

 
 

EAT explores mortality, brutality, compulsion and addiction through a gripping narrative in an honest, even if a bit sarcastic, first person voice.

I hope you all enjoy this human generated image featuring my own human generated gob 👄 Bonus points to anyone who can guess what grocery items I used to make the FX blood 🤔 Click play to hear the snippet but proceed with caution and a strong stomach ⚠️

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Filmmaking Margaret M. MacDonald Filmmaking Margaret M. MacDonald

Time and Irony

I’ve been thinking about time. The inevitability of it. The invisibility of it. How much of it passes during which we feel as if we are in a state of In-between one thing and another, when in fact we are simply forgetting to acknowledge that every given moment is, in and of itself, a state of completion. This microfilm is part of a larger project I’ve been working on about these liminal states in which time passes by. I have yet to complete the full film as time has gotten away from me. Ironic isn’t it?

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