Project Detail

Bright Phoenix

Synopsis

BRIGHT PHOENIX is a prism of a drama within a documentary that explores the uncomfortable shifts in psychogeography as Liverpool is ripped down and rebuilt. The centrepiece is a performance film of Jeff Young's live play, set within the prism of a documentary lament of Lime Street, the gateway to the city; a row of gin palaces and picture palaces, a rallying point for the sundry of Liverpool, once a peoples’ playground, then left to rot before demolition and a sterile desecration of the past in the form of ‘regeneration’.
Ghosts, childhood innocence, the glory of film in the imagination, neglected but etched in pictures, splendid forever.

Details

Year: 2019
Type of project: Features
Running time: 116 mins
Format: Mixed media - film and digital
Director: JP Maxwell
Producer: JP Maxwell
Executive Producer: Jeff Young
Editor: John Carroll Gibbons
Screenwriter: Jeff Young
Principal cast: Cathy Tyson

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Babyface Media

John Maxwell

j.p.maxwell@ljmu.ac.uk

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