{"id":17422,"date":"2015-11-07T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17422"},"modified":"2015-11-07T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T01:01:26","slug":"butchers-hook-a-film-by-simon-pummell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/07\/butchers-hook-a-film-by-simon-pummell\/","title":{"rendered":"Butcher&#8217;s Hook, a film by Simon Pummell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/14545752\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"butcher.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/butcher.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Butcher&#8217;s hook&#8221; is Cockney rhyming slang for &#8220;look&#8221;, something alluded to in <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/14545752\" target=\"_blank\">this short and wordless blend of live action and animation<\/a>. But it also has a more sinister connotation when the fate of the taxidermist becomes apparent. As with Pummell&#8217;s earlier <em>Secret Joy of Falling Angels<\/em>, animal skeletons and silhouettes predominate. The film was co-written by novelist Simon Ings while the sound is by regular Quay Brothers collaborator Larry Sider.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/15\/secret-joy-of-falling-angels-a-film-by-simon-pummell\/\">Secret Joy of Falling Angels, a film by Simon Pummell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Butcher&#8217;s hook&#8221; is Cockney rhyming slang for &#8220;look&#8221;, something alluded to in this short and wordless blend of live action and animation. But it also has a more sinister connotation when the fate of the taxidermist becomes apparent. As with Pummell&#8217;s earlier Secret Joy of Falling Angels, animal skeletons and silhouettes predominate. The film was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/07\/butchers-hook-a-film-by-simon-pummell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butcher&#8217;s Hook, a film by Simon Pummell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,7,22],"tags":[399,6614,7756,6453],"class_list":["post-17422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","category-horror","tag-brothers-quay","tag-larry-sider","tag-simon-ings","tag-simon-pummell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4x0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}