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GLOL is a surreal short film set in the
ruins of London, driven by a
contemporary music-hall libretto. The
film contrasts the beautiful and
grotesque in a narrative focusing on
the universal question - are our lives
driven by destiny… or chance?
The Midland Grand Hotel opened in
London May 5th 1871. This fantastic
Gothic building epitomised the
paradoxes of the Victorian age. The
wedding-cake façade concealed the
first revolving doors and ‘ascending
chambers’. Behind the opulence –
suites with gold-leafed walls and
blazing fires – raw sewage ran in the
halls. With no en suite bathrooms,
servants scuttled around the 300
rooms with used chamber pots and
spittoons. Without modern plumbing
the hotel sank into decay, providing
one of the film’s central metaphors.
Gorgeous Labour of Love combines
fantasy with 'real' reflections of the
everyday world. It blends the quasi-
Victorian appearance of its characters
and accessories with modern moral
relativism. It uses the metaphor of the
railway station and hotel to illustrate
The Girl's journey to the death of
innocence? An escape from the
pressures of cultural stereotyping?
The acquisition of wisdom?
The geometry of the film centres
around the Midland’s vast, descending
spiral staircase, counter-pointed with
the arc of a diver. Both trajectories
represent that moment when impulse is
overtaken by gravity or fate.
This powerfully melodramatic short
narrative, inspired in part by a song by
David Crellin embodies key aspects of
the classic Gothic tale, with echoes of
Du Maurier's Trilby and Le Fanu's dark
stories. The mystery of the 'true'
nightmare of the narrative is left for the
viewer to decide.
set in the ruins of London,
driven by a contemporary
music-hall libretto. The film
contrasts the beautiful and
grotesque in a narrative
focusing on the universal
question - are our lives driven
by destiny… or chance?
This first directing effort by
Stacy Harrison utilises lavish
costumes & breathtaking
historical English architecture
to paint a sweeping painting of
a little film in just under 10
minutes.
This powerfully melodramatic
short narrative embodies key
aspects of the classic Gothic
tale, with echoes of Du
Maurier's Trilby and Le Fanu's
dark stories.
The mystery of the 'true'
nightmare of the narrative is
left to the viewer to decide.
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