Lost in Vagueness

About the movie

The movie tracks the rise of Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival, from when it existed as a little-known ballroom dancing venue on the periphery, to, perhaps, the biggest attraction the festival has ever known. A rumour that Kate Moss and Pete Doherty had wedded in the Lost Vagueness field's Chapel of Love and Loathing brought media column inches and cemented its reputation as the after-hours venue of choice for thousands of festival-goers, who could lose themselves in a decadent whirl of burlesque entertainment and vintage-themed music and dancing. 'Lost in Vagueness' documents events from this heyday - circa 2003-4 - to the demise that gradually occured when Ray Gurvitz's team became involved in corporate parties to fund activities at Glastonbury Festival. Providing a metaphor of how creativity is eventually corrupted by capitalism, the strain of dealing with "thousands of people" at Glastonbury and "paying 500 people on a budget of £2,000" started to take its toll. Roy became increasingly disillusioned and difficult to handle and the Lost Vagueness field was disbanded. A group of creative people who previously worked for Lost Vaugness took over the mantle, with the new "naughty" field, Shangri-La, that exists at Glastobury Festival today. With Lost Vagueness, Ray had created a trend in popular culture, even if his venture was no more.