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Her stories
Lynne Ramsay talks about narrative structure and the gender of storytelling
By Eileen Elsey
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Eileen Elsey is Principal Lecturer in Time-Based Media and Screenwriting at the University of the West of England, and co-author of the book In Short.

1 Eileen Elsey and Andrew Kelly, In Short: A Guide to Short Film-making in the Digital Age, London: BFI, 2002.

2 Small Deaths (1995, 10 mins) is made up of three separate parts and Ramsay wrote more episodes than were shot. Kill the Day (1996, 18 mins) has a disrupted, timeless feel to it, and she decided the final order of the sequences in the edit suite. Gasman (1997, 15 mins) is the straightest narrative, although the ending is inconclusive.