The Computer Virus
[13min, 35mm, 2003] Music, lyrics & sound design; Short musical film about a computer virus that destroys the world, director: Jesse Chambers
* Best Comedy, ICA Awards 2004
* Screened at Cannes Film Festival, 2004
This was another collaboration with Jesse Chambers after we had worked together successfully on Inside Out Man. You can watch it on YouTube (see above). Jesse is a very eccentric film maker, both in terms of his methods and the end results. With both the films I worked with him on being full-blown musicals, we obviously collaborated very closely, especially as we co-wrote the lyrics. The Computer Virus is undoubtedly full of anomalies, inconsistencies and non-sequiturs but I think, partly in spite of and partly because of this, it has loads of charm and originality.
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