Project Detail

The Host

Synopsis

While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. 'The Host' sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP (British Petroleum) Archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. 'The Host' is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

Details

Year: 2015
Type of film: Features
Running time: 60 mins
Format: HD
Director: Miranda Pennell
Producer: Miranda Pennell
Editor: John Smith
Screenwriter: Miranda Pennell
Sound: Miranda Pennell, John Smith
Music: L V Beethoven, Edmund Rubbra, Majid Vafadar
Archive: Archive materials sourced from the BP Archive

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Miranda Pennell

64 Richmond Road
London
E8 3HN

contact@mirandapennell.com

Sales Company

LUX Film and Video

Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane
London
E8 2EZ

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