Project Detail

Through the Hawthorn

Synopsis

A session between a psychiatrist, a schizophrenic patient and his mother. Three directors depict the three characters and their perspectives across three screens. When one person's reality is in a different dimension from the others, can those realities ever meet?

Details

Year: 2014
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 8 mins 28 secs
Format: Digital
Director: Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt
Producer: Anna Benner, DR Hood
Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan
Screenwriter: DR Hood
Sound: Jessica Marlowe
Composer: Jessica Marlowe
Principal cast: Mike Sarne, Dominic Cannon, Louise Brekkon Richards

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Anna Benner, DR Hood

throughthehawthorn@gmail.com

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