![]() In a perverse way, I suppose, I had refused to be sentimental about the death of my daughter. At the time I chalked this up to his age, but even then I knew there was something else at work, and that Laing’s rough transitions between films - his inability or unwillingness to provide connective tissue - was really the equivalent of the rough jump cuts in the films he loved, the films he loved so much he had to destroy, and that my own desire to fill the void of her loss (a void that had nonetheless given my life its shape) was the very reason I had come out here to find Laing as if somehow he could replace the blank and final fact of her death with something else, some mystery, the mystery that her life was or would have been had she lived. As soon as he finishes describing Destroyer he starts in on another film, Black Star. ![]() Be sure to check out our interview with Rombes as well. - The Editors ![]() It is reprinted with the author’s permission. ![]() The following is an excerpt from the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes. ![]()
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