Guests of Another Nation

A 16mm independent film about the young Irish in London in the 1980s.
(John Fleming's The Now Now Express novel explores similar diaspora themes. Buy on Amazon or https://theprongs.bandcamp.com/merch/...)

Over 27 minutes, the film locates various subjects as anything but the successful role models the Irish media at the time was selling as part of a need to be positive about emigration. Arguably far more accurately, it paints the Irish migrant in London more as a lost and lonely outsider driven by something other than economics. Tone is wistful, melancholic, unsettled. A time capsule in whose favour Ireland has once more unfortunately turned.

Made by John Fleming and Mark Stewart. Shot over six short, dark and bloody cold days in December 1987. Broadcast on RTE in Aug 1989.

Added November 2023:
Director John Fleming's new paperback novel The Now Now Express is a lyrical and fictional exploration of similar 1980s London diaspora themes. You can buy it as a paperback or ebook on any Amazon website worldwide:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Express-...

The Prongs: Related Fleming/Toner spoken-word new wave post-punk music project
https://theprongs.bandcamp.com/album/...
https://theprongs.bandcamp.com/merch/...

Guests of Another Nation screenings:
Dublin Film Festival (1988)
Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival, Dublin (2009)
Los Angeles Irish Film Festival (2009)