Project Detail

Asylum

Synopsis

A film about exile and madness, set in a future that shows up the present. A virus has destroyed TV's 'memory files'. Late twentieth century culture has been wiped. A researcher is brought out of retirement to piece together an abandoned project known as The Perimeter Fence whose fragments suggest a bizarre cultural X-File, involving a dubious information broker, working from a Spitalfields basement, who persuades young women to become involved in an image/sound gathering exercise, which is not without danger.

Details

Year: 2001
Type of project: Features
Running time: 56.08 mins
Format: Betacam Sp
Director: Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
Producer: Keith Griffiths
Editor: Emma Matthews
Director of Photography: Chris Petit
Sound: Emma Matthews, Bruce Gilbert (Sound Design)
Principal cast: Michael Moorcock, Ed Dorn, Jim Sallis, Marina Warner

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Illuminations Films

Contact: Keith Griffiths
19-20 Rheidol Mews
Rheidol Terrace
London N1 8NU
UK

T 020 7288 8400

griff@illumin.co.uk

Sales Company

Illuminations Films

Contact: Keith Griffiths
19-20 Rheidol Mews
Rheidol Terrace
London N1 8NU
UK

T 020 7288 8400

griff@illumin.co.uk

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

Asylum

Synopsis

Details

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Illuminations Films

T 020 7288 8400

griff@illumin.co.uk

Sales Company

Illuminations Films

T 020 7288 8400

griff@illumin.co.uk

Page updates

See also