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London’s Burning – Derek Redican
A short video about crisis, control, and the theatre of survival.
London’s Burning is a short visual piece about collapse, spectacle, and the strange calm that often arrives just before impact.
The work draws on the language of catastrophe — smoke, fire, uniforms, and ceremonial power — but reframes it as something quieter and more psychological. A city in crisis becomes a metaphor for the individual: overwhelmed, contained, and still expected to perform.
The imagery is deliberately theatrical. The figure is not simply a character, but a symbol — authority dressed as ritual, standing inside the very thing it cannot control. It’s a portrait of denial as much as it is destruction.
London’s Burning is not about one event.
It’s about a pattern.
A civilisation that keeps moving forward while the flames rise behind it.