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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 21 February 2008

Pick of the Indies

QUICK quick quick: put down your favourite local newspaper, forget reading the rest of your favourite film column.
Go directly to your computer and tap the following into Google: Alex Chandon Myspace.
Then go to the film Borderline, sit back and enjoy.
Chandon, 39, is an accomplished low-budget horror director/ writer/producer who lives in Highgate.
His rosta is immense, feted across the movie-making world as a creative, oddball genius whose early films include the superb Bad Karma, about a bunch of blood-thirsty, shape-shifting Hare Krishna-like aliens, all played by school chums (they went to William Ellis) and including a particularly unpleasant scene where your correspondent’s big brother gets bumped off after saying: “When I said I want a killer zombie, I meant the cocktail, not the costume.”
This project, which he completed last year, is a break from the slash-style movies he has won awards for at festivals. Instead, Borderline is an MC Esher-style dreamy short film that turns London landmarks on their heads. It’s incredible, taking roads up the side of buildings and then down into the middle of the Thames, flipping bridges on their sides, twisting Ionic columns of famous Hawksmoor churches into impossible shapes and sending pedestrians along vertiginous walkways. A truly ground-breaking piece of art. Hats off to Chandon.
DAN CARRIER

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