FInal Chapter - single channel video

Based on A Clockwork Orange, the work explores the unsettled space between Burgess’s book and Kubrick’s movie, which omits the novel’s final chapter and its promise of redemption. Shot at the original location in the Thamesmead Estate with local residents as actors it imagines the final chapter as a film sequence by re-working an iconic scene from Kubrick’s movie. Set against the urban youth riots that convulsed English cities in the Summer of 2011, the work seeks to continue Burgess’s enduring exploration of criminality, free will and state control.