I'd made a film with him earlier called Requiem for a Village where I wasn't the principal cameraman, but I did a lot of supplementary shots. Rather like I did on Together, with Lindsay Anderson, but more so. Anyway, that was his first feature and... first real feature, full feature. And, it was made under somewhat unfortunate circumstances, because it was ready to be produced, the script was ready, but the money wasn't there, and then suddenly the money came through, but, they said, 'But you must make it before the end of the year otherwise the money goes back to whatever'.

So, the preparations were somewhat inadequate, particularly the preparations for the split-screen work, because a major feature in this film is in the flat where D lives. There is a wall that proves to be penetrable. She can walk through the wall. She discovers that... she walks through the wall and there's a whole different world, partly Victorian world, which is on the other side of the wall. So we had to find a way of doing that, and there are various ways of doing it but we weren't... we used a mixture in the end. We weren't totally prepared. And the art department was very deficient, because all they could think of... to set the atmosphere of this post-holocaust, but not post-holocaust, disrupted city, let's say. The atmosphere of this disrupted city, all they could think of was to fill the street with black- overflowing black rubbish bags. That was about it. So that... it left certain things to be desired.

So for that reason it's not a complete success. To my mind, the Victorian sequences, the things that happen beyond the wall are very successful and very well done. Those I like. The realistic side I don't like all that much. It has shortcomings. But it's a film which didn't have any kind of a success. It came and went quite quickly. And it's a shame because it was made the year before Channel 4 started. It's a perfect Channel 4 film. But as it's made before Channel 4 started, it came and went in the cinemas very quickly and also on television it never caused any kind of... there wasn't much critical success and David never made another film. Another one of those who never made another film. He went back to his work as editor and he still works as editor.