Earlier in the year I was a producer on a short film called Allone. Set in pre-Christian Ireland and inspired by an ancient Buddhist parable, it tells the story of a young, recently bereaved woman seeking a cure for her dying child.

This short film offers a poignant, artistic reflection on philosophical and psychoanalytic ideas that animate my own work, and offers a beautiful meditation on the theme of loss.

We’d like to give you an opportunity to watch Allone with others. Afterwards there will be an interactive zoom room for Patreon supporters, where you can meet the director - Helen Rollins - and talk about the film.

HOW TO JOIN

To watch the film, you need to be subscribed to my email list. To join the zoom room, you need to be signed up to Patreon.

DIRECTOR

Helen Rollins graduated as top student from Cambridge University with a double first in modern languages. At Cambridge, she received multiple academic prizes and scholarships, including the award for top student in terms of exam results at Corpus Christi College, taken across all years and subjects in her graduating class. She was also a bousière étrangère at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. During her high school years, she was top student in the United Kingdom for modern languages and was amongst the top five performers in English literature. At twenty-two, she became a teacher of French language, film and literature at Eton College, leaving that post two years later to work as a writer, translator and filmmaker. In her cinematic work, she explores ideas of desire, repression and loss. She has a particular interest in psychoanalysis, continental philosophy and film and literature from the French and Spanish-speaking world. She is the founder of The Magician’s Niece Production Company and a research fellow with the Global Center for Advanced Studies.