2015  ·  United Kingdom  ·  Fiction

THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE

STATUS: Released

THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE

  • 2015
  • United Kingdom
  • Fiction
  • English
  • -
  • 37 mins
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A kind of warped Folktale, the video follows two women through a bizarre, broken landscape of collapsing signs and imploding meanings, on a pilgrimage to the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, to cure their green baby. In this fantastic, primitive-future world, the difference between technology and magic has become incomprehensible. Our characters become entangled in a cargo-cult of Margaret Thatcher, and buy a Maggie doll which spouts quotations to guide them when they pull its string. Red, Green, and Blue characters – that could be distorted versions of long dead political factions – appear to them amongst the many trials of their journey. The title explores the idea of the image of Margaret Thatcher as an after-burn on the collective memory of British culture.