MUST WATCH!
The Quarry's Paul Watts cuts 'The Marriage Of Reason And Squalor', a 4-part series airing on Sky Arts - http://www.sky.com/tv/show/the-marriage-of-reason-and-squalor - tonight from 9pm, directed by Internationally celebrated and acclaimed artist Jake Chapman!
BAFTA - http://www.bafta.org/whats-on/bafta-tv-preview-the-marriage-of-reason-and-squalor
"Internationally renowned visual artist Jake Chapman’s television drama for Sky Arts, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor. The highly original, twisted ‘romance’ stars Rhys Ifans and Sophie Kennedy Clark in an imaginative, hypnotic and strangely unsettling four-part drama.
The series follows Lydia (Kennedy Clark) who has been gifted a desert island by her fiancée, dashing surgeon Algernon, as a wedding present. She goes to the island to wait for him but meets Helmut (Ifans), a reclusive and misshapen author. Helmut exerts a strange control over Lydia who, battling with her emotions, begins to suspect that all is not what it seems on the island. As she waits for the return of her beloved Algernon, Lydia starts to question everything around her and battles desperately to determine what is real – and what is her own fantasy…"
Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/20/chapman-brothers-marriage-reason-squalor
"The Chapman brothers, Jake and Dinos, are to become the latest British artists to transfer their work to the world of film with a planned feature-length adaptation of Jake's debut novel, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor.
Published in 2008, Chapman's book is a typically jagged satire of the paperback romance novel. The story centres on bride-to-be Chlamydia Love and her dalliance with the "devilishly unattractive" writer Helmut Mandragorass. The Chapmans plan to co-direct the film adaptation, for which they are currently writing a screenplay.
Rhys Ifans, who appeared in Dinos Chapman's short film The Organ Grinder's Monkey, is in talks to star. The film is expected to debut at the New York art festival Performa in November. It has been entirely funded by the festival and the Chapmans' art world contacts."