BIG IRON DOOR / NEW CONTEMPORARIES 1993

Dir: Richard Squires

2 mins 24 secs, video, stereo

1992

BANG! BANG! Mom and Dad are shot dead and an adolescent daydream of arrest, imprisonment and abdication unfolds. Monochrome incarceration fantasies are played out on-screen, permeated at intervals by a moustachioed man with facial tremors.

Richard Squires’ BIG IRON DOOR was selected for New Contemporaries 1993-94

“Squires’ gutsy video begins with a double murder and never looks back. Varying between action and almost abstract visual play, it takes its title from a country and western song and like the singer it ends by glorifying the ‘acte gratuit'”

[Stuart Morgan, catalogue introduction]

BIG IRON DOOR is featured on the DVD compilation New Contemporaries: Moving Image 1968 – 2010 (Lux)

Distribution Light Cone

Streaming (Worldwide) Harmattan