In re-viewing our super eight films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade after 1968. I wanted to incorporate these silent images into a story which combined the intimate with the social and with history, to convey the taste and colour of those years.
Gary and Ell (a married man with an inferiority complex, and a grieving young widow - respectively) meet on a blind date only to wind up stealing a killer's car along with a dead body and $40,000.