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, Black Country is a distorted postcard from a confused and increasingly indecipherable England.
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 66 min 26 sec
- 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
- Louis Price
- Director of Photography
- Louis Price
- Sound
- Note Bleue
- Composer
- Note Bleue
- Principal cast
- Max Vann, Daniel Griffith
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
Violet Pictures
24 Thanet GardensFolkestone
CT19 6DF
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