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A little elegance. A little subversion.
Sound on. Eyes open.
Stay for the wink.
The Field Manual, through Lily’s eyes
Watch the story unfold, or return to a moment.

Who is present? Who has influence? Who is quietly setting the terms?

Listen to the words. Look at what happens. Leave room for a useful question.

Learn who can decide, what they need to see, and when to act.
About the film
Meet Lily Bryte: cool under pressure, slightly amused and always watching. Iain Davie’s complete animated short-film pilot pairs bright line art and original jazz with three Symbiain field notes.
Adapted from the short story by Iain Davie. Lily moves through a bright, offbeat dystopia, noticing who holds influence and choosing her moment. The field notes bring the Symbiain Field Manual into her world through character and story.
Read alongside / English
A Symbiain Intelligence production.
Well now... welcome! Let me introduce you... to Lily Bryte! Stay with Lily until the end. She will have a QR code for you, so you can follow her next move.
The past was the start of tomorrow for Lily and brightness and pain. She was a radical, smoked grass and taught arts from her bungalow. A pooch in Louis Vuitton calfskin and packing. An ice cube perspective, and a twisted pair, for in essence she held him hostage. She set the rhyme and constrained the sounds. He couldn’t care, yet was neglectful and sluggish, now the old days were gone.
They had placed confidence in corruption and rock music and there was something shrouded that they had to conceal. So, there was a plot by special people at the top who’d kill, and addiction and sound, as though the disciples of concealment, vigilant in conduct, penetrating in thought; for there were benefits, the application, and life without.
First, read the room. Who is present? Who has influence? And who is quietly setting the terms?
For the premise to be was to thrive and to prosper, to initiate moving up and assertions to flourish, as if all in a babble. Yet she wanted the changes. If you held her hand Lily was warm. For she was sincere and cordial, an executive in rolling rocks who knew stars like cosmology. Yet that handshake was a device of the market and often the beginning of executive boxing; for she could arrest people and knew fortunate sounds. And so she was wanted and lucky and tilted and turned and upright on red carpets, and in newspapers, and in sunglasses amazing.
A millionairess surname and spectrum and dealer of lines and songs and a master of class in red sports cars and pills. For in spring and summer she sacrificed to the war gods in this science of leisure and love of beauty. And the especially week, and the whisper she’d left for the country. The promise to be was the beginning of tomorrow’s good fortune and the thing and the bone of contention of musical notes and the chiming remonstrance of warring state policy.
All teeth and red lipstick and fragrance, and on with the flourishing and awesome heels to put confidence in a turn of the body reflexive. And so rap had set a generation of radicals. Text of text, there was no mixing, just the flow of the song and vocabulary belligerence and trouble and juice. For it was words that were on the line, and enquiry. And the talk of a chicken that was a kilo of coke, close examination and estimated losses.
Listen to the words, then watch what changes. A useful question can reveal more than a confident answer.
And so Lily Bryte was on the march, saddled up and set for the plains of universal suffrage. Hair too, cut and set. On the way to smoke the smoke. The courtroom was crowded. For that morning was the beginning and eyesight. Over see mouths, thumping gavels and dug sentences thereupon the bitter cuts and protests. Yet she sovereign hard and wise and shaping the yielding from her tight corner and strolling a well waxed postscript line, in custom cut and silken cover unidentified by those about to meet defeat by the currency of Tony, good and able.
In sub understanding of imprint and jam and future and general. Perfect in capacity as cool cicadas are, and permitted to can resistance in a court of wide people enslaved to the rhythm of his puff and stop orders. For they were on, and about to be sent up and decorated, not down. No sound. Then by wisdom and knowledge intellectually it was handled. For there were intervals and spaces in between. And if, and those who, and which was that?
In quality and tone as if Sunday’s, and the astronomical institute’s outrage of those fine and experienced as if heavenly stems had been hooked on a trial surface as if a posture to police the gold edged device of saints. Power at work and the forces of engineering and, there were the people that liked regulation. And so a clever recipe of how to work what works the system; and the daggers of ruthless tyrants holding the lid on the cover of military packages from far flung provinces.
Learn who can decide, what they need to see, and when to act. Then make your move with elegance.
For such are the acts of this song. Yet Lily Bryte was not a star, she was greater and brighter. She was moonlight in human form. And, Lily Bryte loved Salty.
A Symbiain Intelligence production.
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