Feature length experimental film made between 2007 and 2008 This is an acerbic, disturbing, often hilarious portrait and metaphor for life in the UK at the end of the New Labour era. The full length film can now be viewed on YouTube:
After a chance meeting an inept film maker seizes upon the opportunity to make a documentary about the comeback of equally inept and unstable nineties underground techno legend Captain Wardrobe. The opportunistic film maker offers to make the film if he can collaborate on Wardrobe’s sure fire hit comeback album, however all attempts to do something constructive are hampered by alcohol & Wardrobes need to manipulate every situation on camera. Frustrated by failure the relationship begins to break down resulting in anger, paranoia and violence as the two men see the camera as the only means to express their dissatisfaction with life in 21st century Britain.
Production Notes
First time film makers Roger Armstrong and Paul Cobbin take viewers on a dark, episodic and uncomfortably funny journey into a growing British underground of talented people disenfranchised by society and trapped in dead end jobs or unemployment. Crushe
d by a pre programmed idea of inevitable failure and impossible to realise dreams the strain of an ”ordinary” life proves too much for some.
Filmed over the course of a year in spare time, on a micro budget and largely improvised without a script Captain Wardrobe Must Die is an honest, idiosyncratic and truly independent film. Directed, Edited & Photographed by Roger Armstrong.
Written and Produced by Roger Armstrong & Paul Cobbin.
Additional Material by Liam Fender and Peter Routledge.
Music by Paul Cobbin
