Extract from Instructions from Light

Fiction

This extract is from pages 155–7 of Instructions from Light by Emma Bolland published by Joan in 2023. Kristen Kreider writes 'Complex, crafted, acerbic, un-nerving, Instructions from Light is writing at its most lucid'. An illustrated poem / novella / screenplay, Jake Arnott writes that it is ‘A startlingly bold act of adaptation that renders a lost film as an illuminated manuscript, where text itself is transfigured into moving images. A compelling drama of language and silence'. Instructions from Light contains the first translation into English of the French Impressionist film maker Louis Delluc's 1920 screenplay Le Silence.