Project Detail

Fib

A thin tree trunk with a knot that looks like an eye. Set against a leafy green space.

Synopsis

'Fib' is the Pictish name for the contemporary Scottish region known as The Kingdom of 'Fife'. It also means a trivial or white lie.

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
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

Production Status

Production Company

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