Transmission

Co-exhibitors:

Ruwanthie de Chickera, Christopher Sherwood and Tara Nadun

Transmission: As the final chapter of the Thought Curfew trilogy, the film was conceptualised and directed by Cotterrell with a script by Ruwanthie de Chickera. As a postscript to the Thought Curfew project, the final production, initially conceived as a staged performance, was reimagined and adapted for online streaming on Ubumuntu 2020 platforms.

This marked the concluding chapter of the Thought Curfew Trilogy. Developed remotely during lockdown between London, Amsterdam and Colombo, it was crafted for broadcast during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Transmission’ was specifically screened at 15:27 CET on 19 July 2020 for the 6th Ubumuntu Arts Festival.

The following is an extract from the film synopsis:

A meeting between two strangers. In a landscape of a real or imagined future, a man obsessively tries to interrupt his isolation by searching the internet for someone like him who may allow him to feel less alone.

His sanity is dependent on a search for humanity that is incremented in a million failed attempts to find an open connection. Searching for love, laughter and solidarity, he is focused on the task that will offer meaning to time and life.

This film concluded David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera’s five-year collaboration spanning theatre, moving image and installation.