Project Detail

Grandmother is a Crab

Synopsis

Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television. Black and white, and mirror effects, take the image out of time, giving it both vividness and distance. The music is played in reverse. And the voice-over and under-titles are a poem that re-enters the magic world of a child on a beach.

Details

Year
2012
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
2 mins
Format
HD 1080p video
Director
Rosemary Norman, Stuart Pound
Screenwriter
Rosemary Norman
Music
Najwa Hakim
Principal cast
Rosemary Norman

Production Status

Production Company

Sales Company

Video Out Distribution

1965 Main St.
Vancouver B.C.
Canada

www.videoout.ca

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