VINCENT BERQUEZ WORKING IN THE POLICE CONTROL ROOM As apostates in stale breathing time we sit and work bores in the head - jumps out at us – we beam dimly as migrants to platforms of optimism. Escape chutes are available but the drop may smash us catastrophically. We are stupid apostles in light time and dark time. Emergencies in small and big bites spring at us and in stylistic professionalism – an ‘ism’ amongst many in the floating and drowning sub-world we exist in – undulating in, we are trapped in officious oxygen, defending those in uniform and our contextual wage givers. My good fellow colleague sitting to my left explains about the clips of films on his new phone sent to him – a technology clogging my powers of comprehension. I don’t understand how it works. Films can be good, liberating our vision of dark time and light time I say. Through our dense work on 2 screens, glaring at us too closely I see a smaller screen with a scene of sex from the mobile phone. Ejaculations, sperm gushing – hot blistering penises masturbated, sucked deep into throats, grinning women – oddly no men’s faces. Grainy movement, oblique, oils on water, obtuse, clogged smiles, gushing, wired for 10-second voyeurs – another ‘ism’ easily attached. I deal with an assault on a woman punched in the back of the head by a schoolchild in a group leaving the bus with his mates after school. There was no confrontation, she sat at the front of the bus, just SMASH! Does she needs an ambulance? I can hear she is crying. Take it slowly; explain what happened in your own time. - woman fellates, tries to breathe and is slapped to continue, which she does - Did she see the schoolchildren’s faces? She was with her autistic son and didn’t want to make a fuss, as it would have upset him. Does she have anyone there at the moment to comfort her? She is alone, no husband now, she splutters. Would she like to be visited by a policewoman, a victim support unit? - man is hung by wrists, naked, whilst a woman, also naked, repeatedly kicks him in the groin, he screams, tries to recover, and she kicks him again - Clip ends with a screensaver of my good fellow colleague’s daughter’s face beaming silently. Call ends. Back to TUT Samples Back to The Ugly Tree The Library