July 1, 2011

Today’s instalment from the new works of Unit 15 is Chris Lee’s fantastic Spider City Funland. I love this film because it feels so consistent in its logic, and part of something so much bigger. I really hope we’ll see more of this world. Enjoy the spider-dreadnaught nod to archigram’s walking cities, the  dog pills, the giant public ‘sculptures’, but remember the craft too- Chris’ talent for drawing comes through in the detail of this film.

…Here in the distant future nothing remains of your civilisation except the hallowed Trocadero Centre. It reigns with iron fists resculpting the world at will, its fecund imagination made flesh at the merest thought. Over aeons the Trocadero mutated into the spider-city Funland and set sail across the seas of the dread Canal Dwellers…

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