A personal and semi-abstract reflection upon the history of Brighton’s famous West Pier.  The film uses elements of childhood fantasy to explore the Pier’s organic forms such as spiders meta-morphing into minarettes, and plant-like unfirling fronds forming decorative apexs.  The film concludes in the present day revealing a once proud but now ruined structure.

Brighton’s West Pier is Britain’s only grade one listed pier.  And yet for the last 25 years it has deteriorated from being one of the country’s finest examples of Victorian sea-side architecture into little more than a ruin, now home to the phenomenon of a vortex of pre-migatory starlings.

Funding to restore the pier to its former glory has finally be secured.  The restoration will begin Summer 2002 provided that Brighton’s other pier withdraws its legal protest against the funding sources for the restoration.

It is my hope that my film will help to raise awareness for the urgent need to accelerate this restoration process, not only of Brighton’s West Pier but also many other British piers in a similiar state of decline.