{"id":10580,"date":"2013-03-30T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:30:36","slug":"lucy-mills-simply-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10580","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Mills – Simply British"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSimply British (2013, 77MB, 4:03 min)<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi Lucy,
\nI think it’s really good. Who did the Hard Day’s Night remix?
\nI really like the way it is clearly a powerful comment on lots of things to do with the contrast between Britishness & flag waving and national hubris &c. and the actual<\/em> situation for many people, but it’s never simply a piece of agit-prop.
\nAt first I thought its slowness in unfolding might be a problem but I like the way it makes us take the time to think, with the various repeated images (like the bus with the slogan on it) but also with different material developing against the background you establish, especially the ever present and heartbreaking Big Issue guy – it turns out to be slow burning as opposed to slow. I also like the 90 degree rotation of some of the stuff and the way that then fits rather nicely into empty-ish spaces in the other “channel”. Great work – congratulations!
\nmichael
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