

SPOKE
WRIT
I am STAY...
I am not just the film with the name STAY.
I am many things.
I am more things.
I was things.
And...
I will be things.
I was the film screened in the Cushendall Golf Club on the 30th of August 2025.
But that was just one version of me.
I will also be the version of me that will be screened in cinemas across these islands over the month of October in 2026.
I am also the long playing record that was and still is the soundtrack to the version of me screened at the Cushendall Golf Club on that 30th of August 2025.
But...
I am also the long-playing recording that will contain the the score of the version of me that will be screened in cinemas across these islands over the month of October in 2026.
And I am the version of me screened in the two-seater cinema with the name The Cell, that is in the cell of The Curfew Tower
But...
I am also the Posters, and the Trailers, and the T-shirts, and the Radio Play, and the Books about me and of me, and the Cover Versions of me. And your Memories of me. And your Longing to have watched me when I was first screened.
And I am the forever and I am forgotten.
I am the greatest and I am the worst.
And I am the only film to ever be made with the budget of the producer’s annual state pension.
And I am the only film to ever be the first feature film directed by a woman in her 60s.
And I am the only film to star Puppet Elvis and a song writer attempting to write the second best song he had ever written for the Ghost of Elvis.
I am to be admired.
And...
I am to be dismissed.