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Letter - to anyone who is listening

Synopsis

How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.
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Details

Year
2019
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
1 min 19 sec
Format
digital video
Director
Jane Glennie
Executive Producer
Sarah Sparkman
Screenwriter
Doyali Islam
Director of Photography
Jane Glennie
Sound
Jane Glennie
Principal cast
Clare Roberts

Genre

Experimental Literary Adaptation Woman Director

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Jane Glennie

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