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A London Tale

Synopsis

The city of London has a beauty about it, but can sometimes be lonely for its inhabitants. Starting at dusk and ending at dawn the next morning, this film explores this idea of loneliness through four different scenarios showing the full gamut of life and death in the city, and exemplifies how indifference can exacerbate this plague of modern times.

Visually expressive and highly emotive, this film, though only five minutes long, works on a scale (visually and emotionally, that is) as big as the city it portrays. It is made using traditional forms of animation, as well as new forms such as computer animation, all skilfully composited together to convey feeling and emotion and life in an intuitive, expressive way.

Details

Year
2006
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
5 mins 30 secs
Format
Mini DV
Director
Jonathan Amstead
Producer
Jonathan Amstead
Editor
Jonathan Amstead
Screenwriter
Jonathan Amstead
Director of Photography
Jonathan Amstead
Sound
Jonathan Amstead
Composer
Kevroy Sayer, Jonathan Amstead
Principal cast
Joe Hall, Mitzi Baehr, Rosie Moreno-Parra, David Carter, Ian Gardener, David Hopewell, Greame Fleming

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction Animation

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Jonathan Amstead

25 Cromwell Road
St Andrews
Bristol BS6 5HD
UK

T+44 (0)11 7330 7154

M +44 (0)7903 301 159

jonathanamstead@theotherchoice.co.uk

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