Project Detail

Best Before Death

Name: Best Before Death
Director: Paul Duane
Genre: Experimental
Released: 2018
Duration: 89 mins

Synopsis

Following artist Bill Drummond over two years of his 12-year World Tour: At work in Kolkata, India, and in Lexington, North Carolina, doing his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes, making soup, shining shoes – to the variously amused, perplexed or annoyed reactions of those around him.

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 89 mins
Format: 2K digital
Director: Paul Duane
Producer: Robert Gordon, Paul Duane
Executive Producer: Ben Wheatley, Andy Starke, Finlay Pretsell, Celine Haddad, John Caulkins
Editor: Tony Cranstoun, A.C.E.
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan, B.S.C, Patrick Jordan
Sound: Kevin Pinto, Michael Hunkele
Composer: Bill Drummond
Principal cast: Bill Drummond
Film Image: © Tracey Moberly/Bill Drummond

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Screenworks

Paul Duane

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Rook Films

Andy Starke

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Scottish Documentary Institute

Finlay Prestell

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Media Ranch

bguh@bellsouth.net

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