Black Country - A Film From England
Synopsis
Mixing a combination of industrial archive footage, experimental sound design (wax cylinder recordings, player piano, distorted 78 RPM records), with stripped back austere camera compositions and mysterious, mundane and sometimes unsettling subjects, a distorted postcard from a confused and increasingly indecipherable England.
Details
- Year
- 2020
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 66 mins
- Format
- Digital 2K
- Director
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Louis Price 1st Feature
- Producer
- Martin Wells
- Co-Producer
- John Bradburn
- Executive Producer
- James Collie
- Editor
- Francis Watson, Louis Price
- Screenwriter
- Grieg Campbell (Dramaturgy)
- Director of Photography
- Louis Price
- Sound
- Note Bleue
- Composer
- Note Bleue
- Principal cast
- Max Vann, Daniel Griffith
- Production Advisors
- Maggie Lewis, Adam Davy, Ian Bailey, Chris Vann, Ossie Garratt
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Production Status
Production Company
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