Project Detail

Rolls and Shutters

Name: Rolls and Shutters
Director: Stina Wirfelt
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2016
Duration: 17 mins

Synopsis

Taking as its starting point the photographic archives of the Thistle Foundation and Craigmillar Festival Society, rather than examining the known facts and details of the photographs held in the archives, the narrator uses them to recall her own memories of making photographs as a teenager.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 17 mins
Director: Stina Wirfelt
Director of Photography: Stina Wirfelt
Sound: Sound Recording: Beinn Watson
Principal cast: Voice: Stina Wirfelt
With thanks to: Vivian Balmain, ReUseIt, Lorna MacIntyre, Streetlevel Photoworks, Rachael Cloughton, Kim Beasley, Johnni Stanton

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stina Wirfelt

stina.wirfelt@gmail.com

Sales Company

c/o Stina Wirfelt

stina.wirfelt@gmail.com

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