elph and Payne claim to be neither artists nor filmmakers. "The only shocking thing about modern British art," they say, "is its total insignificance to anything going on in modern Britain." That might be said about any art for which market reality is the only reality. They pay attention to another possibility and to what is before us.
Brought up in west London, they became friends as teenagers and first came to critical attention with a trilogy of engaging and at times satirical films. The first, Driftwood, 1999, is a journey through the chaotic streets of central London and draws attention to the collision between the rules of public spaces and their use by alternative street cultures…