Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood...
Synopsis
In the process of creating this new work, Rosalind Nashashibi questions how a group’s sense of commonality is dissolved when there is an absence of communal experience and adherence to linear time. Through an open-ended discussion of space and time travel in the film, which is in part inspired by the creation and dissolution of group relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Shobies’ Story” (1990), Nashashibi explores new modes of conviviality, considering the absence of the nuclear family structure without an imperative model in sight.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - International premiere
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 24 mins
- Format
- Installation piece
- Director
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Rosalind Nashashibi
- Producer
- Denna Cartamkhoob
- Editor
- Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Harris
- Screenwriter
- Rosalind Nashashibi
- Sound
- Adam Gutch; Sound Design: Philippe Ciompi
- Composer
- Subjective (C Price / J Davidson), Giedrius Puskunigis
- Principal cast
- Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didziapetris, Pauline Manacorda, Pietro Manacorda, Elena Narbutaite
- Colourist
- Jason R Moffat
- Film Title
- Part One - Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
UK, Poland, Austria, Netherlands co-production
LUX Production
Waterlow Park CentreDartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF
Sales Company
Lux Distribution
Waterlow Park CentreDartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF
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