It is time to mothball your second/third/nth generation VHS-to-DVD rips as the British Film Institute announces a compilation of KLF films and music videos.
23 Seconds to Eternity includes the film The White Room (1989), an ‘ambient road movie’ following American police car Ford Timelord and Jimmy Cauty (Rockman Rock) and Bill Drummond (King Boy D) on a journey cross-country in search of the ‘White Room’. Remastered and regraded from the only existing film print, The White Room features a new soundtrack specially recorded for this Blu-ray/DVD release.
23 Seconds to Eternity also features a newly restored version of The Rites of Mu (1991), a 29-minute feature narrated by Martin Sheen, documenting a summer solstice event organised by The KLF on the Scottish island of Jura in 1991, plus the previously unreleased short Krash (1992), edited in 2022, a record of the final and violent destruction of Ford Timelord. The soundtrack to Krash is a track from The Black Room, the unreleased album by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
23 Seconds to Eternity brings together the music videos for the hit singles ‘Doctorin’ the Tardis’ (1988) by The Timelords, ‘It’s Grim Up North’ (1991) by The JAMs and the rarely seen Kylie Said to Jason (1989), as well as the Stadium House Trilogy featuring the KLF’s international hits during 1990/91, ‘3 A.M. Eternal’, ‘Last Train to Trancentral’ and ‘What Time Is Love?’, plus the single ‘Justified & Ancient’ (1991) featuring lead vocals by “The First Lady of Country” Miss Tammy Wynette. Released in the UK in March 1992 to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the discovery of America by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in the year 992, the music video America: What Time Is Love? is a guitar-heavy techno-metal version of their 1990 anthem.
The Blu-ray/DVD can be preordered through the BFI webshop or Heavenly Records’ Bandcamp page.
A launch screening for the limited edition Blu-ray/DVD will take place with a Q&A at BFI Southbank on 6 November 2023.
I wish it had Waiting.
I also find it kind of strange why “Waiting” is missing. To be honest, soundwise it’s not my favorite film, but it would fit perfect to make the compilation more complete.
I’m guessing its a copyright thing, as the soundtrack to Waiting is like an alternative mix of Chill Out.
Considering they released Come Down Dawn as an alternate mix of Chill Out with various samples stripped out, probably because of copyright issues, I’d guess it’s for similar reasons Waiting didn’t make it onto the BFI DVD.
Hello,
is any of you going to the screening at BFI Southbank on 6 November 2023 and can help me with buying a ticket? I can’t buy it myself, ‘cos they don’t accept Paypal as payment method.
Loves and Mu Mus
Daniel
I just received the DVD/Bu-Ray today…
The previously unreleased track from the Black Album on it is interesting, the intro is basically the riff from Black Sabbath’s track “Black Sabbath”, and the main riff for the rest of the song is like a slowed down version of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”, same rhythm. Some great guitar solos too.
It’s a pretty straight metal track, no electronic/dance elements.