Project Detail

Elephant Days

Synopsis

Charting the band The Maccabees’s creative process as they record their fourth album, ‘Marks To Prove It’, working in self-imposed isolation in an anonymous studio in London’s Elephant and Castle... The film becomes a compelling, poetic portrait of the area and its local population... gardens are created in surprising spaces; a local musician is having a suit tailored, BB heals through prayer at the concrete-built Crossways church, and the 100 year old Arments Pie and Mash shop is, as ever an enduring local institution. All of these tales are woven through the band’s experimentation – their false turns, self-doubts and triumphs – as they create what will become an incendiary, life-affirming album - LFF
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Sonic Strand - World premiere

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
83 mins
Director
James Caddick, James Cronin
Producer
James Caddick
Editor
Martin Fickling, Richard Graham, Pawel Slawek
Director of Photography
James Cronin
Sound
Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor: Dario Swade
Composer
The Maccabees
Music Supervisor
Connie Farr

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

2AM Ltd

Nick Crabb
National House
60–66 Wardour Street
London
W1F 0TA

Sales Company

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