Synopsis

A black-and-white video reveals three different scenes: a room with one man and his chairs; a direct-animation amateur collage; a school skit about kings and queens. The video plays with editing as a magic trick to reveal people and objects disappearing from a room, then a direct animation collage featuring magazine cutouts of a pair of jeans, a woman in a bikini and a military tank. The final and predominant part of the video shows a school play, featuring kings, messengers and a dramatic kidnapping at the centre of the drama. The film is made at the Basement with the Intermediate Education Centre (IEC) which comprised of young people aged 12 to 16.