Films : LMX Spiral : all
animate! synopsis
With Thatcher our narrator we take a fast-forward ride through the high-rise 80’s and the lottery-led 90’s in a pop promo for the punk in us all. Money might be too tight to mention, but things can only get better, can’t they?
short synopsis
LMX Spiral is an intellectual pop-promo about Britain’s transition from the enterprise culture of the eighties to the Lottery cultures of the nineties.
key credits
- director
- Richard Wright
- The Lucky Fella
- Simon Will
- director of photography
- John Stewart
- animator
- Richard Wright
- compositor
- Saint John Walker
- editor
- Saint John Walker
- music
- Walter Fabeck
Richard Wright
short biography
Richard Wright is a media artist concentrating on digital filmmaking.
February 1998
artist’s website
Richard Wright's website
a film by Richard Wright
direction
- director
- Richard Wright
cast in picture
- the players
- Adrian Senior
- Dominic Wright
- Jane Prphet
- Silver Nazari
- Matthew Fuller
- Colin Chapman
- Rob Allman
- Duncan Smith
- Graham Harwood
- The Lucky Fella
- Simon Will
- the players
- Masuko Yoko Koji
voice-over
- Mrs. Thatcher
- herself
live-action personnel
- director of photography
- John Stewart
- camera operator
- Tim Palmer
- camera assistant
- Ella De
- Pete Rewis
- gaffer
- Nick Wesley
- electrician or sparks
- Lucy Seymour
- production designer
- Rachel Frost
- costume designer
- Jane Wagman
- Sacha Allistone
- first assistant director
- Ray Kilby
- Christine Kretschmer
- runner
- Rupert Farmer
- Seena Gosrani
- location manager
- Penn Linfield
image personnel
- animator
- Richard Wright
- James Parkinson
- Kevin Rowe
- compositor
- Saint John Walker, Createc
- editor
- Saint John Walker, Createc
sound personnel
- music
- Walter Fabeck
support
- thanks
Research Facilities: Metro New Media, London Guildhall University.
Filmed on Location: Obsessions, Parco’s Restaurant, Queens House, Summit Sports Complex
© Richard Wright 1998
The maelstrom of the eighties approaches the sleeping city…
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Gentrify the inner cities with jazzy new facades.
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Even old sixties office blocks get the red, white and blue treatment.
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LMX Spiral front title card. ‘London Market eXcess’ – a term used in the insurance industry during the eighties to describe the practice of re-insuring a policy over and over again, decreasing the premium at each turn in the ‘spiral’ and therefore increasing the risk that there might not be enough left to meet actual claims.
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Cast aside the nihilism of punk…
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…and replace it with a culture of whiz-kid entrepreneurs.
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Who dares wins.
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The champers flows, the boom years begin…
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Playing Russian Roulette? The odds look good to me.
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The weather forecast is fine for the foreseeable future.
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I am the big swinging dick.
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Greed is Good.
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Batten down the hatches and full steam ahead.
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Impress the ladies with a display of coffee connoisseurship.
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When the going gets tough…
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Outstanding! Just run that past me again…
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Don’t price yourself out of the market.
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The gathering storm.
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Let’s tighten our belts and learn to live within our means.
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“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”.
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Black Monday. It’s every man for himself.
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The forces of chaos are upon us.
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The spiral of credit collapses.
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A lifetime of achievements disappear like ten pins.
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“Where there is despair, may we bring hope”.
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Embrace uncertainty.
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There’s no way back now, the good times are behind us.
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Perhaps a last chance gamble for success…?
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After all, someone’s got to win…it could be you?
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master copy format
- format
- BetaSP
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
