The closure of the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen is the latest symptom of the fragility of Scotland’s entire cultural ecology, argues Colin Farquhar.
I feel a sense of pressure to write about that which is closest to hand, the recent closure of the Belmont cinema, a place that I’ve worked at for nearly 15 years.
When I was offered these columns, my first question was: “Do you want me to write in my capacity as head of Belmont Filmhouse?” The polite response was: “No, not especially”, but it is – or, it was – the only capacity that I felt fit around me. Not so much my window into the world, but maybe others’ window upon me.
How could I be understood? I could be understood as someone who managed that cinema.
The truth of that ebbs away. Currently, as of writing, I am still working for the administrator, sporadically. I expect that will end soon, too, maybe in a few days... Keep reading on The Press and Journal.
I feel a sense of pressure to write about that which is closest to hand, the recent closure of the Belmont cinema, a place that I’ve worked at for nearly 15 years.
When I was offered these columns, my first question was: “Do you want me to write in my capacity as head of Belmont Filmhouse?” The polite response was: “No, not especially”, but it is – or, it was – the only capacity that I felt fit around me. Not so much my window into the world, but maybe others’ window upon me.
How could I be understood? I could be understood as someone who managed that cinema.
The truth of that ebbs away. Currently, as of writing, I am still working for the administrator, sporadically. I expect that will end soon, too, maybe in a few days... Keep reading on The Press and Journal.