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

Production Status

Production Company

Babyface Media

John Maxwell

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