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In Nothing There’s Something I Feel

Daniel M. Shapiro

    He slept in the projection booth, awoke when the take-up reel spooled the ending in a rhythmic scold. The powers forbade the display of their image. He’d locked himself in to find evidence. Filmmakers would sneak single frames into blockbusters, one-sixteenth of a second of car chase stowaway. They knew the risk of identifying the real killer, knew the portal would open and close at the same time. All he had to do was stay up, squint through a magnifying glass. The static images chilled him, swept him to the side like a one-sheet. Once he got them moving, the long takes of old did him in. Raised by the quick cut, he understood the shot reverse shot of intimacy, life of a cameo. Unconditional giving mesmerized him, how one spool passes itself to another until it’s gone. Through the window, he read a blank screen’s lips. Enemies would remain without faces as he dwelled on the only light in the room, reached out to it, held on long after the burn had closed its eyes.

 

Title is a lyric from “Eyes of a Stranger” by Payola$ (#4 on Canada RPM 100 chart, 1982).



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