In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
Synopsis
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
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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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Palestinian Territories, Denmark, UK, Qatar coproduction
Spike Film and Video
Ali RocheSpike Island 2012
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS1 6UX
Sales Company
Mec Film
Irit NeidhardtEmdener Str. 48d
10551 Berlin
Germany
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