Thronebosis

It is May 6th, 2023, the day of the Coronation of King Charles III in London, and a young man calls Emergency Medical Services claiming the whole thing is making him feel quite unwell. “Thronebosis” makes use of manipulated news footage of the day’s events mixed with animation to illustrate the man’s concerns in a punk-infused poetic form.

A La Push film / Written and Directed by Marco Espirito Santo / Produced by Del Reginato and Marco Espirito Santo / Featuring the voices of Kane O (@adxhmusic) as the The Caller and Katherine Masters as the Emergency Call Operator / Music: “Not to Be” by Luke Atencio, via Musicbed / Special Thanks to: Tyler Cave and Miguel Costa / (C) MMXXIII, La Push.

As I watched the coronation of King Charles III on May 6th, 2023, I couldn’t help but think that the pomp and fanfare of the whole thing, at a time when the UK and indeed the world are going through such difficult times, seemed wildly out of step with reality and good taste. As I saw the hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets and cheering, my thoughts turned to those who viewed the coronation and what it stood for less favourably. What were the poor and struggling Britons up and down the country, or the citizens of Commonwealth nations who are still bound to The Crown making of all this? What if one of them, maybe a Londoner even, called up Emergency Services to voice his feelings of frustration as a poem? That could be funny, in a British, dark humour sort-of-way, I thought… and very punk. As I made this imagined, DIY short, a line from The Clash’s epic song London Calling kept ringing through my head: “And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!”. Probably. – Marco (writer/director)