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Cafe Europa by The Tiger Lillies from the album The Last Days of Mankind

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For this music video, Takatsuna Mukai and I travelled back to the 90s, when this song, “La-la”, was recorded and when, just a few years earlier, 12-year-old me was filmed rehearsing for dance class in La-la Land (that’s Los Angeles to those not in the know), having just escaped the crumbling Soviet Union.

The future was uncertain. I didn’t understand America and didn’t speak much English. I didn’t anticipate making art films at a Chicago university or living in London, where my distant and not-so-distant past selves would be in conversation with the new present.

What would my past self say to me now, and how would she communicate across time?

Maybe in dreams. Maybe in old videotapes. Takatsuna Mukai - Soundscape, Musical Direction Martyn Jacques - Voice Adrian Stout - Double Bass Kevin Bass - Drums Mixed by David Mercer Produced by Takatsuna Mukai Video by Zoetica Ebb

Directed by Takatsuna Mukai and Zoetica Ebb

Available on Bandcamp

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The Tiger Lillies/Improbable — ‘Shockheaded Peter’ (excerpts) (1998)

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War is not Fair by The Tiger Lillies from the album The Last Days of Mankind

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Million Martyrs To Love by The Tiger Lillies from the album The Last Days Of Mankind, originally made for a theatrical production of Karl Kraus' satirical play about the First World War.

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