The films were made with 15- to 19-year-old non-professional actors, no crew and no lighting. The imagery has then been heavily manipulated and graphically colourised, with an experimental soundtrack added for each film.
Gearhead explores how, on a bleak English housing estate, a dysfunctional addict teenager's automatic behaviour becomes more absurd as the day continues. A series of statements and questions in the accompanying pack help viewers to explore the issues the film raises, as well as the manner in which it goes about this.
The same approach is taken to Fruit Loop, which portrays how, when a young man's luck on the fruit machines deserts him, fate dictates an absurd descent into self-destruction.
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