Otis Funkmeyer and Lulutronic

A man walks into a Monkey Forest with an old friend. They do what any insane patrons of Monkey Forests would do – they start behaving like monkeys. As I was filming Lulu dance like a monkey complete with bulging face and wide monkey ears, a man tried to walk passed us. Lulu would have none of this, and so began literally ‘climbing’ him and picking the nits out of his hair.

That would be the beginning of the story of Otis Funkmeyer and Lulutronic.

Words are, again, inadequate to explain this part of the journey. To get a feel for Otis click here or google Meet The Funkmeyers. He is off the chart.

Our journey together was to have a look at the masculine principle. To look at how it feels demonised inside ourselves. Looking at how destruction gets a bad wrap! At the beauty inherent in anger when it is allowed to be there and not pushed away and ignored.

With Otis I would look at how we are truly beasts with consciousness. And I learned by him pushing me too far that anger is my device for drawing clear lines with the people around me. The further I let something go beyond that anger point the more lost I and the other become.

On the consciousness side of our learning we listened to the recordings of channelled aliens and let our imaginations run wild with ideas that probably seem crazy. And we learned through experiment, experience, mistakes and the odd success.

It was the best of times, it was the end of time.

Props have got to go out to Lulu whose pressure points were pushed through these experiences and held her own solidly.