Piercing Brightness
Synopsis
Jiang and Shin, agents who have been dispatched from the home planets, land in a spaceship outside Preston, in the North of England. In the guise of a young Chinese boy and girl they are to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the 'Glorious 100', agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe. Living through countless lives without any scope for return, many have become corrupted, forgetting their original purpose and slowly becoming influenced by and in turn influencing their adopted home.
Details
- Year
- 2012
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 75 mins
- Format
- Red digital / Super 16mm / 'archive' material transferred to HD
- Director
-
Shezad Dawood 1st Feature
- Producer
- Kate Parker
- Executive Producer
- In Certain Places / Modern Art Oxford
- Editor
- Katherine Lee
- Screenwriter
- Kirk Lake
- Director of Photography
- Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz
- Production Designer
- Simon Godfrey - Set to Set Ltd
- Sound
- Tom Drew
- Composer
- Acid Mothers Temple, Alexander Tucker & Decomposed Orchestra with DCW Briggs and Mark Wagner
- Principal cast
- Chen Ko, Jennifer Lim, Houda Echouafni, Samantha Edwards, Tracy Brabin, Derek Siow, Will Matthews, Ron Webster, Bhasker Patel, Paul Leonard, Alexander Tucker & Decomposed Orchestra with DCW Briggs and Mark Wagner
- Colourist
- Jason R Moffat
- Associate Producers
- Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston Guild 2012, In association with the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad using funds from the National Lottery
- Casting Director
- Rose Wicksteed
- Production Consultant
- Michael Kelk
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
UBIK Productions Ltd
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