Unseen cinema. 4, Inverted narratives. "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki

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INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. "A nasty little story," announced a production onlooker. Saki's "Sredni Vas...

INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. "A nasty little story," announced a production onlooker. Saki's "Sredni Vashtar "is faithfully realized by producer-director-writer-cameraman-editor David Bradley, even down to each character's lines, read by Bradley and post-synchronized decades later (1959-81). The film's dead-serious tone is balanced by the sly merriment displayed by the little boy playing Conradian. -BRUCE POSNER David Bradley started as a teenager to make and collect movies. His own productions began with the short, "Dr. X" (1936), and feature films, "Oliver Twist" (1940) and "Peer Gynt "(1941). On the strength of his amateur feature Julius Caesar, Bradley was given a contract at MGM but only completed four commercial features. -HAROLD CASSELTON 16mm 1.37:1 black and white sound 11:02 minutes. Production Willow House.

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