Project Detail

Lime Street

Name: Lime Street
Director: John Maxwell
Genre: Experimental, Drama
Released: 2020
Duration: 116 min

Synopsis

LIME STREET combines archive footage, documentary, animation and the performance film of COSTA Book Award nominated Jeff Young's play BRIGHT PHOENIX starring Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa). It explores how changing, sanitising and eradicating the urban landscape distinct to a city, notably the now demolished Futurist Cinema in Liverpool that is featured in BRIGHT PHOENIX, leads to a degradation of culture and a caustic erosion with the past. How do places recall culture and society in a unique way? How do they offer a physical, organic link to new generations? How are they live stages for culture to grow? This is a city that can’t be found in a guidebook, a culture that lives in the walls of places like the Futurist Cinema. When it is torn down, the future vanishes. LIME STREET blends an elegiac play with an investigative documentary, ergo the recent arrest of city Mayor Joe Anderson and current investigation into bribery charges surrounding property development.

In an age where city planning and regeneration are so relevant to the present and future of cities, this project explores how retaining and restoring places means so much more than nostalgia.

Details

Year: 2020
Type of project: Features
Running time: 116 min
Format: HD
Director: John Maxwell 1st Feature
Producer: John Maxwell
Executive Producer: Jeff Young
Editor: John Maxwell
Screenwriter: Jeff Young
Principal cast: Cathy Tyson

Genre

Experimental Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Babyfacemedia

51 Norris Green Road
Liverpool L12 8QG

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