Project Detail

In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

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

Production Status

Production Company

Palestinian Territories, Denmark, UK, Qatar coproduction

Spike Film and Video

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

Sales Company

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