Shades

Directed by Bill Hays

With Tracey Childs, Francesca Gonshaw, Neil Pearson, Stuart MacKenzie and Emily Moore

1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.