Late 1980s one-off drama, with insects as its obsession...
October 10, 2015 7:07 PM Subscribe
Long shot, but I'm trying to identify an old TV episode. British, 1988-1990, a one-off episode in some late-night strand, probaby BBC2...
My overriding memory is that of insects. Lots of lingering shots of moths flapping around inside light shades and against windows.
The story follows a middle-aged woman.
There's a scene where she bathes whilst above her moths flap around in the bathroom light shade and drop into the milky bathwater.
I think there is an outside threat - a stalker, perhaps - someone watching her isolated house.
Later, she drives a VM *Beetle* to a library or a school (or some council building).
That's it. A scant recollection. Would love to find it again. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
My overriding memory is that of insects. Lots of lingering shots of moths flapping around inside light shades and against windows.
The story follows a middle-aged woman.
There's a scene where she bathes whilst above her moths flap around in the bathroom light shade and drop into the milky bathwater.
I think there is an outside threat - a stalker, perhaps - someone watching her isolated house.
Later, she drives a VM *Beetle* to a library or a school (or some council building).
That's it. A scant recollection. Would love to find it again. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
Very wild guess but maybe My Family and Other Animals? I seem to remember some wierd insect stuff in this-a boy with beetles on strings on his hat has stuck with me ever since.
posted by RandomInconsistencies at 3:22 PM on October 11, 2015
posted by RandomInconsistencies at 3:22 PM on October 11, 2015
It sounds a little bit like Peter Greenway's work to me. For example his film "A Zed & Two Noughts" came out in 1985 and features lots of animal shots.
posted by rongorongo at 12:01 AM on October 12, 2015
posted by rongorongo at 12:01 AM on October 12, 2015
Response by poster: Thanks both, but definitely not Durrell or Greenaway. It was a one-off TV episode of an alternative strand on BBC in the late 1980s.
Probably ran for 45 to 60 minutes. What I remember of the plot is some vague external theat - a lurking stalker, or us as invading viewers.
On screen, the invaders were insects: moths flapped (and perished) in the lightshades; the car was a Beetle.
My broken memory has the last shot being one of the Beetle parking outside of a redbrick library or school, with an implication that we are the stalker viewing the woman (a feeling muich like the credits sequence from Haneke's Caché).
My memory is too vague, but thanks for your help.
posted by 4eyes at 9:37 PM on October 14, 2015
Probably ran for 45 to 60 minutes. What I remember of the plot is some vague external theat - a lurking stalker, or us as invading viewers.
On screen, the invaders were insects: moths flapped (and perished) in the lightshades; the car was a Beetle.
My broken memory has the last shot being one of the Beetle parking outside of a redbrick library or school, with an implication that we are the stalker viewing the woman (a feeling muich like the credits sequence from Haneke's Caché).
My memory is too vague, but thanks for your help.
posted by 4eyes at 9:37 PM on October 14, 2015
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posted by 4eyes at 7:13 PM on October 10, 2015