Project Detail

In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

Name: In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
Director: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Genre: Experimental, Horror, Woman Director, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Released: 2016
Duration: 29 mins

Synopsis

A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
This film resides in the cross-section between science-fiction, archaeology and Middle Eastern politics. Combining live action, computer generated imagery and historical photographs the film explores the role of myth in history, fact and national identity.
Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 29 mins
Director: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Producer: Ali Roche
Executive Producer: Film London
Editor: William Dybeck Sorensen, Daniel Martinez
Screenwriter: Søren Lind
Director of Photography: Thomas Fryd; Visual Effects Supervisor: Henrik Bach Christensen
Production Designer: Simon Godfrey
Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Tom Sedgwick
Composer: Aida Nadeem
Principal cast: Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Anna Aldridge, Leyla Ertosun
A Spike Film and Video production: Commissioned through Film London’s Artists Moving Image Network FLAMIN Productions scheme, supported by Doha Film Institute, Arts Council England, The Danish Arts Council, Iambic Film, Knud Højgaards Fond and Contemporary Art Platform – Kuwait

Genre

Experimental Horror Woman Director Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Palestinian Territories, Denmark, UK, Qatar coproduction

Spike Film and Video

Ali Roche
Spike Island 2012
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS1 6UX

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Sales Company

Mec Film

Irit Neidhardt
Emdener Str. 48d
10551 Berlin
Germany

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