03: VIDEOS > DRIFTING


Director:

John Clayton for Swivel Films

Producer:

Alex O'Neal

Released:

1997 (mastering date 11.9.1997)

Duration:

5.12


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The promo for DRIFTING was filmed inside the derelict Brook Hospital in South East London.
It featured both vocalist Siobhan Lynch and Alan himself, together with an extensive cast of
characters which included his 2 year old daughter Paris and his partner Hepzibah.

THE ORIGINAL TREATMENT:
The film opens with a man falling through the air. We see tall buildings in the background as he falls
to earth in slow motion.
We then cut to a hospital trolley being pushed along a long corridor.
The camera is fixed to the trolley and becomes the main POV in the video. We see the feet of the
people pushing the trolley but not their faces. As we move down the corridor we encounter a series
of characters -
a mother restrains her child, a pair of middle-aged twins whisper something to each other as they
smirk at the trolley, a couple sit in an empty hospital ward, a woman walks over and shuts the door.
Alan sits in an optician's chair having his eyes tested.
At the end the man gets up off the ground and walks away...

DRIFTING was shot on super 16mm, film stock designed to give a more cinematic look.

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