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PAMPAS: Submitted by Jessica Bishopp , Oct. 29, 2020

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Plants were used in 1970s British suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours or so rumour has it. A hybrid documentary exploring the truth in the botanical myth; what went on behind closed curtains? A look at sexual signalling, subcultures, female desire and suburban legend.

Judges Comments:

Fun and retro, this little window onto a secret seventies phenomena, that of swinger parties, is playful and informative. Fascinating interviews are accompanied by a brilliantly reconstructed soft-focus  seventies suburbia of garish finger food and swirling cigarette smoke. - Philip Ilson (Director of London Short Film Fest)