Project Detail

Fisticuffs

Miranda Pennell

Synopsis

Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment.

The ritual of the Western bar-brawl is relocated in a London working men's club.

The formal approach (to choreography, framing and editing) ensures that the viewer is made aware of the choreographed nature of the violence. This violence appears to have no consequences, the actors' bodies being as rubbery and invulnerable as those in the television Westerns that inspired it.

Details

Year: 2006
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 11 mins 10 secs
Format: DigiBeta, Beta SP PAL
Director: Miranda Pennell
Producer: Tracy Bass
Editor: John Smith
Screenwriter: Miranda Pennell
Director of Photography: Patrick Duval
Sound: John Smith

Genre

Experimental Music Comedy Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Voodoodog Ltd

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1-8 Whitfield Place
London W1T 5JU
UK

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www.voodoodog.com

Sales Company

Lux

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UK

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