Fib
Synopsis
Filmed at locations in Fife, the film focuses on two census takers and considers the resulting information and actions as ‘factish’.
The filmmaker and writer Alex Hertherington wrote of 'Fib' in his essay, 'A Poetic Measurement' , "Karen Cunningham stages her work in the temporal and the travelogue, 'indexes of time' on aspects of landscape -its images, objects, scale and extremes."
Commissioned by LUX and Collective Gallery.
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 22:29
- Format
- 16:9 digital
- Director
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Karen Cunningham
- Producer
- Karen Cunningham
- Executive Producer
- Karen Cunningham
- Editor
- Karen Cunningham
- Screenwriter
- Karen Cunningham
- Director of Photography
- Karen Cunningham
- Sound
- Karen Cunningham
- Composer
- Destroyer (Dan Bejar)
- Principal cast
- Siobhan Calder, PJ Cummisky
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Karen Cunningham
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