Just Words

“Using as it’s text Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I,’ this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy as she rants at lightening speed Beckett’s words about home, family and the confines and alienation associated with being a woman.” – Program notes, Madcat Film Festival, San Francisco, 2001 “A 10-minute tour de force […]. In ‘Just Words,’ Bourque intercuts footage of her mother and her sisters with a performance by actress Patricia MacGeachy of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’; the result is unnerving (as all Beckett is) yet touching (as some Beckett is not).” – Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 1992 Selected screenings & awards: Flaherty International Film Seminar, 50th anniversary, “Inspired Filmmaking”, Poughkeepsie, June 2004; Honorable Mention, The Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 1993; Honorable Mention, The Canadian International Annual Film Festival, Ottawa, 1992; Honorable Mention and Tour, The 17th Festival of Illinois Film & Video Artists, 1992; Honorable Mention, The 2nd Annual Chicago Student Film & Video Festival, IL, 1992; Best of Cine-X Screening, selection from The 9th Annual Olympia Film Festival, Seattle, 1992