Art Film
Super 8mm film Colour;Black & White Silent 1997 6:40
Summary: An experimental film, largely in colour, using a range of London urban and suburban exteriors. It captures some views from Waterloo Bridge before the arrival of the London Eye and the recent explosion of high-rise buildings in the City of London.
Title number: 20536
LSA ID: LSA/27091
Description: Beginning in black and white, this film’s opening close-up shot of perforations in metal sheeting cuts to similar-looking tactile paving. The viewer is introduced by extreme close-up to a figure in a gas-mask who is carried along a bridge over a train line by stop-frame filming. The camera then continues along the same trajectory past a man watching over the side of the bridge, along a path by a graffiti-heavy wall, over another bridge and along a pavement. There are shots from the platform of a British Rail station as trains pass through before the film suddenly cuts to a colour montage of faces in crowds, cut quickly and interspersed with branded signs and high street shopfronts. The next passage is shot down the neck of a guitar, clutched by an anonymous figure in black Converse shoes, and visits a variety of exterior locations before the camera films down a drain hole. More frenetic cuts follow, including a shot of the sign for West Hampstead BR station, a signpost in the Waterloo area and the Empire cinema on Leicester Square. The camera then takes a speeded-up journey on the upper deck of a London Transport bus before returning back over the bridge where we earlier met the gas-masked figure. Shots from Waterloo Bridge of the City of London, the South Bank and the Houses of Parliament then give way to clouds flying over London, briefly superimposed with a close-up of a man’s face
Credits: Adams, Mark (Filmmaker)
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