Zero Zero

This intriguing audiovisual piece was created by Mike Batt in 1982 It was the first thing Batt ever directed codirecting with John Eastway The designs and animations were all part of the original concept conceived and designed and by MB during his 1981 Pacific crossing from Los Angeles to Sydney aboard his boat Braemar The story is about a young man called Number 17 Ralph to his friends played by Batt Set in the distant future or past the World in which Number 17 lives is one devoid of Love which has being deliberately genetically eradicated Number 17 however is a genetic throwback and falls in unrequited love with Number 36 a surgeon at the local correction centre for those afflicted with the disease of Love