"Nowhere Game"

30 January 2023

4 mins 32s

Nowhere Game

Beacon Hill Fort hosts this black-and-white promo for Patrick Wolf's 'Nowhere Game'. Built to defend the port of Harwich, Essex, the battery features gun emplacements, pill boxes, underground tunnels, and towers built to resemble houses to fool the enemy. Under cover of night, Wolf arrives at the fort like a commando armed with a viola.

He's met by a group of lost souls who carry lumps of coal in their hands then pull giant boulders with rope. Wolf offers little comfort to the battery's inhabitants ("Summer is dead in the water/But dare you admit your hope is too?"), but textured, other-worldly costume design makes them memorable at least.

UK

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