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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

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  • Surreal
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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Saam Farahmand
Producer
Amber Millington
Production Company
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

Wardrobe
Emily-rose Yiaxis
Make-up
Lisa Mustafa

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

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