You Can't Go Back

On October 7th 1997, Ross Sutherland was sat watching Eastenders with his parents. At 8:09pm, just as Pauline Fowler arrived at Ruth Fowler's door holding a jigsaw, so was Ross' friend Jay pulling up outside his house in Essex.

Ross got up from the TV, climber into Jay's car and the pair headed off towards Colchester. Fifteen minutes later, just as Joe Wicks proposed to Sarah Hills, Ross and Jay's car left the motorway, careering into a road-sign.

Combining film analysis, video-poetry and storytelling, Ross remixes Eastenders in order to re-enact the events of that night, discovering poetry hidden beneath the surface of the soap.

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