Project Detail

Cinema III

Synopsis

Menace and melancholia as layered textures explore complex histories. Space, sound, colour, stone and paper mutate.
 
Differing intimacies to a cinema which has sat as a ruin for over twenty years, is due for demolition and was once a thriving cinema scene are evoked by the voices of three characters.

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
9 mins
Format
mini DV
Director
Nirmal Puwar, Sanjay Sharma
Producer
Nirmal Puwar
Co-Producer
Nirmal Puwar
Editor
Dominca Favata
Screenwriter
Nirmal Puwar
Director of Photography
Des Seal
Production Designer
Antoinette Brown
Sound
Shervin Shaeri
Composer
Shervin Shaeri
Principal cast
Erskine Howell, Ann Small, Jitey Samra

Production Status

Production Company

Goldsmiths, University of London

Funded by the British Academy, LCACE, Goldsmiths University of London, Brunel University

www.gold.ac.uk/methods-lab/projects/

Sales Company

Dr Nirmal Puwar

Senior Lecturer
Sociology Dept
Goldsmiths, University of London
Lewisham Way
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
UK

n.puwar@gold.ac.uk

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