Project Detail

Shadows

Synopsis

Shadows is a short experimental film about the fact that no matter where we come from or who we are or what language we speak, we are the same colour ie black. The languages spoken in the film are Chinese, Russian, Indian, African and English. The film was created by filming the shadows of people talking against a wall.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins
Format: 8mm, Digital 8
Director: Sandra Mareska Baid
Producer: HuiHai Lu
Editor: Sandra Mareska Baid
Screenwriter: Sandra Mareska Baid
Sound: Sandra Mareska Baid, HuiHai Lu
Composer: HuiHai Lu
Principal cast: University of Essex students

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

University of Essex

Keynes Tower
10/10 Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
UK

T+ 44 (0)1206 535870

hlu@essex.ac.uk

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