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The Marvelling Lens

Synopsis

Eugene Atget's photographs of the banal and the everyday are magnificently transformed into eerily ethereal boulevards, strange and fantastical shop-fronts and spooky haunted streets peopled by phantoms. Does his Paris, full of magic, nostalgia and lyricism, still exist or has it disappeared forever? 

Details

Year
2005
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
16 mins 29 secs
Format
Digi Beta
Director
Rowena Cohen
Producer
Rowena Cohen
Editor
Jane Hodge
Director of Photography
Stuart Biddlecombe
Sound
Miha Jaramaz
Music
Richard Chester

Genre

Woman Director

Categories

Fiction Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Sales Company

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield HP9 1LG
UK

T+44 (0)1494 671 234

rjenkins@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk

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