The website Dummy Jim was launched with style at Glasgow’s CCA on Saturday 23rd August.
The event featured a live set from the film’s composer Daniel Padden along with The One Ensemble and projections of Super 8mm film shot along the original route of James Duthie’s trip to the Arctic Circle.
The One Ensemble
Samuel Dore, the talented deaf actor who will play the character of Duthie, gave an eloquent talk about his role in the film, and shared his insights into what life must have been like for a profoundly deaf young man back in 1951.
French actress Marie Denarnaud traveled to Scotland from Paris specially for the occasion & read aloud from Duthie’s journal ‘I Cycled Into the Arctic Circle’.
Samuel Dore & Marie Denarnaud
With grace & style she bravely handled Duthie’s text which includes peculiar, old-fashioned words like ‘perigrination’ & Scots towns such as ‘Kirkcaldy’.
A short ‘teaser film’ directed by Matt Hulse called ‘God Gives Nuts But He Does Not Crack Them’ was also screened which features Samuel & Marie in character.
The short film enjoyed its premiere earlier in the week at The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, a unique & original film festival established by Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton.
BBC2’s See Hear filmed the launch.
The event was skillfully BSL interpreted by Jo Ross.
Matt Hulse would like to thank CCA Glasgow for their in-kind support & help in making the event such a success.
Tags: BBC See Hear, Daniel Padden, Dummy Jim, dummyjim.com, I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle, James Duthie, Marie Denarnaud, Matt Hulse, Samuel Dore, Super 8mm Film, The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, The One Ensemble
