The Lock-In never ends. Consisting entirely of pub footage from the British soap opera EastEnders, it is endless inasmuch as its source is endless and its makers living.

The Lock-In

“The visual is essentially pornographic”, wrote Fredric Jameson, adding that “pornographic films are thus only the potentiation of films in general, which ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body”. Turning down the Prince’s invitation to watch the passionate lovemaking between the Evil Queen and the Hunter, Snow White retorts, “Rather than look, I’d rather hear”.