Putins Happy

Jeremy Deller has a special ability to make people feel comfortable This includes individuals who have varied and at times disturbing opinions Putins Happy does not address the feelings of the Russian leader directly but instead documents the protests around Parliament Square in the wake of the vote for the UK to leave the European Union The result is a montage of 42 minutes of the wilder scarier madder ends of Brexit As well as allowing people to reveal some of their motivations through interviews Deller unpicks the farright visual imagery and accompanying narratives seeping into the protests through flags banners tattoos and scrawled messages The often very angry Leave protestors are peppered with some surprisingly optimistic Remainers These provide a light at the end of a very strange very contemporary and very worrying tunnel