Exit No Exit

This is a love story - both real and imaginary - told in dance and music, and filmed on location in the London Underground. The real world of commuters, buskers and tube trains is the setting for a journey of the imagination. In the underworld beneath the underground a story without words unfolds. Boy meets the girl of his dreams but their love is shattered.

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Credits

co-producer

Arts Council of Great Britain

Deanne Edwards

Duration

00:26:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300260

Language

English

Subject categories

Music & Performing Arts → Modern dance

Musicals

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1988

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