John Cale on screen

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Director: Dave McKean (2002)

28 minutes.

A man wanders the streets of Venice, looking for solace, finding old masks, dead books and a ghost. This multi-layered piece combines Super 8 footage, 3D-animation and live action.

John Cale provided the voice-over of the narrator.

McKean was the designer of Cale's autobiography What's Welsh for Zen. He would also create illustrations for Cale's self-penned paranormal bedtime stories on the CD that came with the limited edition of Tim Mitchell's Sedition and Alchemy - A Biography of John Cale in 2003, and the cover for the Circus Live album in 2007.