Art film protest?
Super 8mm film Colour Silent 1997 9:50
Summary: An experimental piece, partly in black and white, filmed in London. Includes shots of public transport, Leicester Square, urban roadways, 1997 General Election campaign material and a house demolition.
Title number: 20534
LSA ID: LSA/27089
Description: Two of the initial shots of this film portray forms of protest: demonstrators in white pollution masks and a vandalised Conservative Party General Election billboard poster. There follows a series of satellite dishes, interspersed with other shots – clouds, an urban street - before we see a wrecking ball in the process of demolishing a large house. Shots of cinema exteriors, including the Empire in Leicester Square with the Swiss Centre in the background, give way to a progression of close-ups of a London Underground Way Out sign at the bottom of an escalator. Patrons enjoy a shooting game in an amusement arcade. We then cut to black and white and shots of traffic lights, pedestrians’ shadows and other road scenes. After a train arrives at a station the camera travels on it briefly before shots of pedestrians on an escalator and a stairway. Colour soon returns: the election poster is shown in full followed shortly afterwards by a placard in a busy pedestrian area advertising a golf sale before we return to black and white with another shot of a pedestrian stairway. Cars drive over a canal and around pedestrians. There is a ghostly nocturnal-style shot of a church. Light plays on a wall before colour returns: cars are carried on a trailer, a Tube train passes above ground and wrecked cars lie abandoned. We see further shots of satellite dishes as well as an afternoon train passing by a station platform before the closing shot of a decrepit car by an overflowing waste disposal point.
Credits: Adams, Mark (Filmmaker)
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