Mick Jagger 'England Lost' by Saam Farahmand
David Knight - 3rd Aug 2017
Mick Jagger's scathing response to Brexit has inspired a compelling, quietly furious video by Saam Farahmand.
While Jagger uses a sporting metaphor in England Lost to make his point about the country's slide into global irrelevance, Farahmand takes the metaphor in another more cinematic direction.
Luke Evans plays the man from the Ministry, with '50s suit and impeccable old-world manners, who senses the need to rebel. And so he runs - not only from the city, but apparently out of his own time. Colliding into signs of a far more modern world feeds his paranoia and the desire to escape. But ultimately, and in classic fashion, he is marooned.
Farahmand's surreal nightmare vision, laced with humour, reflects Jagger's own beginnings in the mid-20th century - the age of George Orwell, post-war paranoia, old school espionage. And also the brilliant 60s TV show The Prisoner, where the hero was imprisoned in the Village, and the border of his world was the beach. Here the Village is just a little bit bigger.
David Knight - 3rd Aug 2017
Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Saam Farahmand
- Producer
- Amber Millington
- Production Company
- BS
- Executive Producer
- Semera Khan
- Executive Producer
- Anthony Austin
- Executive Producer
- Dan Keefe
- Production Manager
- Mavreen Brown
- 1st AD
- Ed Bellamy
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Steve Annis
- Focus Puller
- Eira Wyn Jones
- 2nd AC
- Jenny Chuan
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Alex Gibbon
Art
- Art Director
- Chloe Brady
Wardrobe
- Make-up
- Lisa Mustafa
- Wardrobe
- Emily-rose Yiaxis
Casting
- Lead actor
- Luke Evans
Editorial
- Editor
- David Stevens
- Editing company
- The Assembly Rooms
Grading
- Colourist
- Seamus O'Kane
- Colour grade company
- The Mill
VFX
- VFX
- Stefan Susemihl
- Post production company
- The Mill
- Post Producer
- Thom Godsill
Commission
- Commissioner
- Semera Khan
- Label
- Polydor
Other credits
Sound Recordist
Robin Green
Stunt Performer
Dacio Caballero
Cast
Helena Bullen, Flynn Chester, Charles Gillies, Maceo Bhardwaj, Jesse Ayertey, Ray Mccallan, Pelham Elliott
Additional Cast
Ruby Prendergast, Roshni Rathore, Lynsey Balloch, Sam Chapman, Christopher Pan, Norryk Jackson, Samuel Scott
David Knight - 3rd Aug 2017