Project Detail

Game Keepers Without Game

Name: Game Keepers Without Game
Director: Emily Wardill
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2010
Duration: 87 mins

Synopsis

Game Keepers Without Game is a film set within the structure of a feature length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Play La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream), it follows the narrative of the return of a child who had been banished from the family home. Translated into contemporary British life, the film is comprised of a mixture of acted scenes where nothing and nobody touches each other. Still shots of objects become characters and a drumming sound track builds up and breaks down like the building of a house.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 87 mins
Format: 16mm
Director: Emily Wardill 1st Feature
Producer: Tom Dingle
Editor: Emily Wardill
Director of Photography: Tim Sidell
Sound: Dominic Fitzgerald
Composer: Jamie Gomez
Principal cast: Chloe Wilson, Holli Dempsey, Marco Aponte, Julia Dagger, Glenn Conroy, Akhram Girmay, Alison Girmay

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Tom Dingle

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