Project Detail

I'm Not Dead Yet

Name: I'm Not Dead Yet
Director: Elizabeth Stopford
Released: 2009
Duration: 69 mins

Synopsis

5 years ago, film maker Elizabeth Stopford decided she wanted to document an extraordinary story that was unravelling within her own family.

As her outspoken and elderly grandmother Ruth clings to her gothic house as a symbol of status and position, dark memories of the family's early life in the house begin to surface. As tensions escalate over plans to hand ownership of the house over to one of her twin daughters, Ruth flees the country to France, to the home of her other daughter. However her journey shatters open a hidden world of painful secrets within the family's past. As everyone converges on the house the pain of the past and the resentment of the present forces the entire family to confront the legacy of 30 years of family trauma.

Taking the form of a parallel narrative, I'm Not Dead Yet draws on 20 years of archive film of the twins growing up within the family home. The past unravels in the present as each character is faced with confronting the secrets and the divisions within the family to this day.

I'm Not Dead Yet is a unique and personal film about the inheritance of a house, and one family's unspoken and unresolved past.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 69 mins
Format: digibeta
Director: Elizabeth Stopford
Producer: John Battsek
Co-Producer: John Battsek
Editor: Ken Flanagan
Composer: Ken Flanagan

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Passion Pictures

john@passion-pictures.com

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