"Filmed among the ruins of The Crystal Palace Terraces, Transmitters is a playful and poetic ode to desire".
Directed,
shot and edited by Gary McQuiggin of Welywyn Garden City, known for his
work previously with The Pheromoans, The Bomber Jackets and Deerhoof,
the film recalls James Broughton's surrealist miniature The Pleasure
Garden (1957).
Using
a number of the same locations, the band appear, disappear and
re-appear amongst and against the modern day remains of the ruins.McQuiggin ups the 'pleasurable strangeness' of Broughton's original with
increasingly splenetic rhythmic cuts and visual non-sequiturs.
Transmitters continues
the tradition of 'the park' as a place of self-reflection and respite
from urban hullabaloo, as well as a space for serious transformative
experience - as seen and heard in works by artists diverse as The UV
Race (Life Park), The Kinks (Village Green Preservation Society), Gary
Numan (Down In The Park) and Prince (Paisley Park).
"Stylish, funny, charming - Transmitters may
be a slight film but it is by no means an inconsiderable one" (reworked
excerpt from the Pleasure Garden BFI DVD booklet, Jim Cook, 2009)
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