Tomorrow Calling

1993
4.0

Bill is shooting architectural photographs of "futuristic" buildings of the 1930s for a coffee-table book commissioned by Dialta. But as he frames up a deco bingo hall, a vast airship looms over him. Is it a dream? His friend Merv...

Category: Shorts
Runtime: 12m
Director: Tim Leandro
Cast: Colin Salmon, Don Henderson, Toyah Willcox, Sara Stockbridge, Jack Raymond
Studio: Channel 4 Television
Country: United Kingdom
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Tomorrow Calling

Synopsis

Bill is shooting architectural photographs of "futuristic" buildings of the 30's for a coffee table book commissioned by Dialta. But as he frames up a deco bingo hall, a vast airship looms over him. Is it a dream? His friend Mervyn tells him it is a manifestation of the mass unconscious, a "semiotic ghost". Bill next sees people dressed like extras from "Things to Come", the futuristic fantasy. Mervyn advises Bill that there is no future, only a futuristic dream invented in the present, and that the cure is a large dose of pornography. Bill goes straight to the video shop and its top shelf.