Following the success of my documentary-concert New Order Decades, the band wanted to take the opportunity of their forthcoming Alexandra Palace concert in London, November 2018, to capture a full set in a similarly immersive style. I wanted it to feel almost like a club visual: the cameras on and around the stage focussed on providing the beauty, but as the concert film pulls back to the vast and elated crowd, swamping the historic hall, the style changes to embrace the concert visuals as overlays as the edit shifts in a different direction for every single song...

The concert film was named "Education Entertainment Recreation". A 90 minute version was edited and broadcast on Sky TV. The full length concert was released with a the essence of an appropriately beautifully packaged New Order BluRay box set. 

This Louder Than War review by Audrey J Golden captured my intention perfectly:

"The Education Entertainment Recreation film, directed by Mike Christie, generates an immersive experience for the viewer. Even if you weren’t at the gig in London, the cinematic accoutrements at work resurrect the sensation of being in the crowd. At various points, graphics from on-stage projections behind New Order become astronomic in size and superimposed on the screen. Visuals become vital to experiencing the music. Regret is among the first songs on the setlist, and as Bernard Sumner reaches the chorus, a split-screen effect mirrors the joyful chaos that begins to build in the audience. During Ultraviolence, the fourth song on the setlist, erratic triangles of neon green light, like paper-clipped confetti, fall across the screen. One of the greatest uses of this digital technology materialises during Vanishing Point as monumental neon pink jellyfish swimmingly swallow the band, the stage, and the interior space of Alexandra Palace. There’s also a certain anxious anticipation when you’re immersed in a live performance, and the editing reflects that feeling. With the number of edits I’d expect from an action movie - and with the duration of most shots right around a couple of seconds - the film reproduces the exuberant frenzy of hearing Steve Morris’s drumming bouncing off the Ally Pally walls and seeing the contrasting light beams coursing across the stage..."

135 mins / UHD / 5.1 / 2021 / Directed by Mike Christie / A ChristieHQ Production

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