Remediating Transcultural Memory

3.2.2 Feminist filmmaking practice as intervention (Carol Morley's The Alcohol Years)

The autobiographical The Alcohol Years is based on the director's teenage past during the early 1980s when she used to spend her nights at the Haçienda in Manchester. Carol Morley's state of notorious drunkenness, her sexual activities as well as the fact that she almost married Buzzcocks' singer Pete Shelley, but left him right before the wedding, contributed to turning her into a local myth. “Manchester was a real boys' town and I would freak people out because I'd fuck anybody, men or women. And of course I had this huge reputation”, Morley states in an interview (Morrow 2000). The film came about, long after Carol Morley had moved to London, when an old ...