Mirrelle Beneffitte
Creative writer, BA Cultural Studies
Whatever I experience or come across matter, the rest is objective.
Come and find me there, under the tree, on the bench, in the comforting shade where I'm crafting my stories. Let's all enjoy it! Cheers!
A Design for Life*
I collect music. I perfectly realise that in this era of a modern digital world everyone can potentially fulfil his or her desires in moments downloading the stuff from the Internet. But not me. I COLLECT music. You can SEE my collection in real, it’s visible. There are not only digital copies (I have them all in my laptop of too), but you can see the physical CDs, vinyls and music DVDs. Here are first few photos:
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 4 days ago in BeatPomegranate Kisses
Red-haired girl in her thirties is sitting on a comfortable couch in a dimly lit room. She is surrounded by a settee with rainbow-coloured upholstery placed opposite her, colourful wall sign with a smart sentence she can’t read at the moment, and a chic black chair with gold rivets stuck into the walnut wood. All of the objects in this place, the same as people spending their afternoon in here, are of a different order, but it doesn’t bother her. On the contrary – these small details are helping her to think and that’s a real consolation for her wrecked nerves. She brought watercolour painting set in a bamboo wooden box with her as usual looking for the inspirations in the surrounding space. Multitudinous oak barrels with wine and beer. Bottles of different sizes and shapes with beverages rich in colour and varied in texture. Plates with grapes, pomegranates, and kiwis arranged on the tables. Cacti, aloe vera, dracaena, yucca; snake plant and spider plant set by the window with a noble intention of shading from the bright light of the day. She sketched them all earlier, even cutting one of the pomegranates to seize the centre of the fruit on paper. She has also planned to paint wildly sprawling vine-like pothos plant placed on the antique green French style metal table. But that may happen later. At this point she needs a break. Papers, pencils, paintbrushes, and watercolour set are heedlessly left alone next to her on a couch. She is staring at the wooden floor and some dirt laying down there all this time, maybe leftover from someone’s supper swallowed in a rush yesterday which staff didn’t have a chance to clean yet. The place is called Crimson Cellar and is hidden from the eyes of the wide world between the buildings in the narrowest street of the town. She is sipping Merlot from the green goblet glass; her thoughts are drifting into oblivion, unaware of people and actions around her.
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 4 days ago in Humans
My Temporary Home
Walls are trembling from the cars passing by Reminding me how brittle is life; Slanted walls are threatening to collapse
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 6 days ago in Poets
The Well – A Perfect Marriage Pt. 2 (Reminiscence)
The old man was sitting by the kitchen table in the basement of the house he has built by himself. He had bought the land in the 1980s when no one from his family wanted to get on with it and from the deep foundations in the ground, step by step, he has built this concrete colossus clasping every brick in his hands. His brother was taking black-and-white photographs of the construction works back then, their late dad was helping with a concrete mixer and fixing every glitch in the machines operating almost all the time with the essential breaks only at night. When the couple’s first daughter was born, they moved in together into the raw walls with media utilities (water, gas, electricity) connected appropriately and started a new life.
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 7 days ago in HumansOLD-FASHIONED
A man is screeching like an old radio I don’t know what I can do. He starts in the morning: When the birds’ chirps cease, he’s waking up with a loud yawn,
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 11 days ago in PoetsRESOLUTIONS
To submerge myself in the new wave of conscription To live life to its full To feel fresh soil under my feet To sniff crispy morning air
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 15 days ago in PoetsStudent Life in the Cinema
A Cinematic Guide No. 2: Hatching a genius FOREWORD: Years spent on film festivals had opened my horizons and taught me the most important lesson: if you want to gain knowledge of the real cinema, you have to follow the directors. So since then, I’m walking step by step on the path prepared by: Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Derek Jarman, Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, François Ozon, Xavier Dolan, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polański, and tons of more… But there’s also of course enticing mainstream and eternal classics. In “The Cinematic Guide” I’ll try to share with you my fascination with the cinema the way I see it, showing most relevant, important, and acclaimed from artistic point of view “productions”. Be prepared for the most valued knowledge straight from the screening room, film creators, and film festivals.
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished 20 days ago in Geeks
Mastering Murder Mystery: from Hitchcock till today
A Cinematic Guide No. 1: Crime and Mystery FOREWORD: Years spent on film festivals had opened my horizons and taught me the most important lesson: if you want to gain knowledge of the real cinema, you have to follow the directors. So since then, I’m walking step by step on the path prepared by: Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Derek Jarman, Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, François Ozon, Xavier Dolan, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polański, and tons of more… But there’s also of course enticing mainstream and eternal classics. In “The Cinematic Guide” I’ll try to share with you my fascination with the cinema the way I see it, showing most relevant, important, and acclaimed from artistic point of view “productions”. Be prepared for the most valued knowledge straight from the screening room, film creators, and film festivals.
Mirrelle BeneffittePublished about a month ago in Geeks
