Paul Kelly (director), Andrew Hinton (producer), and the brains behind that perfect pop band called Saint Etienne (Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs) were the first work group to have a 12-months fixed residence at the Royal Albert Hall, for a whole year. In that beautiful concert hall complex located in London’s South Bank, they were both curators and witnesses of the remodeling –an estimated 100 million pounds were spent– of the place whose construction began in 1949, after the Nazi bombs destroyed the Queen’s Hall in 1941.
Here lies a fable of reconstruction featuring shots of Ballardian poetry, in which the making of its famous carpets is narrated in the visual style of an Animal Planet documentary, the blueprints are spread on boards like dry choreographies by Esther Williams, mixing machines get bukkakes of fresh cement, and the frontal shots of hundreds of piled-up pipes look like a huge lead beehive. There’s a musical grand finale, but this is a film of, by, and for ladies & gentlemen, so we won’t spoil it. JB
D, F: Paul Kelly
E: Mikey Tomkins
S: Byron Blake, Daniel Herbert, Rob Mullender
M: Saint Etienne
P: Jude Kelly
CP: Heavenly Films
Jim Cadbury-Brown, Oliver Chapple, Trevor Danatt, Alain de Botton, Jeremy Deller
Heavenly Films. Paul Kelly
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05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
