Project Detail

Away with Words

A man teaching a woman how to paint an intertitle correctly

Reshoot Productions

Synopsis

London, 1931. Abel Lively is broke, alone and terrified of going outside his one-man movie studio, Lively Pictures. A reality-challenged title writer with an imaginary parallel existence as the gun-slinging star of his own action-adventure serial, Abel is fast approaching a crossroads.

Penelope Peabody, a former Paramount poster artist and current unemployed portrait painter who shares Abel's distaste for talking pictures, catches his eye and unknowingly sets in motion a collision of worlds. Soon, Abel will be forced to face the perils and possibilities of two worlds: the one in his head, and the one in which he has a chance at real love.

What follows is a planet-spanning odyssey replete with mad scientists, barren wastelands, vengeful utility companies, draconian judiciaries, sinister machines, prophetic visions, unbearable heartache, crippling poverty, murderous phantoms, fiendish debt collectors and an interfering Betty Boop.

A silent film featuring performances from Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery and Edward G. Robinson alongside a modern cast, with an entirely original solo piano soundtrack.

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Features
Running time: 99:29
Format: Digital
Director: Samuel Pothier, Husam Taha 1st Feature
Producer: Samuel Pothier, Husam Taha
Editor: Samuel Pothier, Husam Taha
Screenwriter: Samuel Pothier
Director of Photography: Husam Taha
Composer: Andrew Cowie
Principal cast: Samuel Pothier, Jessica Still, Oliver Makins, Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson