The Red Lion

Guerrilla filmmaking on-the-fly on the streets of WC1, London:

Wanting to spend her last day in London seeking the pub where Marx conceived the Communist Manifesto, a destitute third-world backpacker must persuade her fellow traveller it's their ultimate sightseeing. Wanting to spend her last day in London seeking the pub where Marx conceived the Communist Manifesto, a destitute third-world backpacker must persuade her fellow traveller it's their ultimate sightseeing. The story starts in Trafalgar Square, where two down-at-heel, Third-world backpackers consider what sight to take in on their last day, before jetting off. The female wants to find the very pub where Marx conceived the Communist Manifesto. The boyfriend is resistant, thinking they could spend their time more wisely. But she’s insistent, coming from a country impoverished by fat cats running off with revenues. only they can find the place, written out of guidebooks and internet searches relied on till now. Using her intuition as their guide, she drags her boyfriend along a route Marx himself very probably took 150 years earlier: past the National Gallery, through Leicester Square, along Shaftesbury Avenue, up Wardour Street (where Marx lived for a while), past where the Third International's office was on Greek St, down and into Great Windmill street - homing on the Red Lion pub, ironically renamed 'Be-at-One' at one time and now ‘Rupert St.’ At the pub, she roars – ends up embracing one of the Landseer lions in Trafalgar Square.