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Crippled Symmetries

Synopsis

Taking as its starting point American modernist William Gaddis’ epic experimental novel, JR, 'Crippled Symmetries' meditates on questions of indeterminate value and what it means to grow up in a society beset by abstraction.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
35 mins
Director
Beatrice Gibson
Producer
Denna Cartamkhoob
Executive Producer
Film London, Mike Sperlinger, Collective Edinburgh, Grazer Kunstverein, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Sally Campbell, Tim Nash
Editor
Beatrice Gibson
Director of Photography
Nicolas Loir
Production Designer
Shaun Fenn
Sound
Sound Design: Beatrice Gibson; Sound Recordist: Simon Reynell; Sound Mix: Henning Knoepfel
Principal cast
George Harrington, Anton Lukoszevieze, Oliver Botes, Jay Russell, Chloe Hannon, Katie Shea, Ricardo Little, Bruno De Barros
Commissioned by
Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and Arts Council England; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Kunstverein, Graz

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Somesuch

Lara Coker Hutchins
Unit 4E, 4th Floor
Zetland House
5-25 Scrutton Street
London
EC2A 4HJ

Beatrice Gibson

c/o Laura Barlett Gallery
4 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT

Sales Company

LUX Film and Video

Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane
London
E8 2EZ

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