THE WINTER LEAGUE

A long lost film from Broken Pixel and Forest Industries.

Produced with the kind permission of the Winter League Trust.

The Winter League is a music and film collaboration created by members of shady bard and film maker, Broken Pixel. The project was originally recorded, performed and exhibited in 2008. The project combines 11 new songs and an ambient documentary film. Charting the journey of The Winter League across land and sea, the film is a collection of discovered fragments, taking in windfarms, broken piers, seabirds, urban landfill, boat graveyards, a rusting cruiseliner and abandoned lighthouses.

Part One: LAND follows the migration of the seagull from its coastal home to the inland urban landfill sites which it now calls home. The fragments of film piece together the final days of The Winter League travelling across a land seemingly abandoned, save for its seabird protagnoist, where windfarms turn for no-one and fridge mountains tower on the horizon.

Part Two: SEA pieces together the story of The Winter League's journey to the coast where they hope the Coastal Guard will carry them across the sea to safety. On arrival, they find the shoreline abandoned, littered with boat graveyards and crumbling lighthouses. The film concludes with The Sleeping Forecast - an evocative epilogue in which the abandoned lighthouses seem to come alive again, as if in a dream.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• the winter league
• broken pixel
• forest industries
• shady bard
• environmental disaster.