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Title (Year) Director. Place

Name: Title (Year) Director. Place
Director: Chris Collier
Released: 2023
Duration: 72 min

Synopsis

Title (Year) Director. Place is a documentary in the celebratory style of Free Cinema, displaying an intimate portrait of Alan Goble, an obsessed octogenarian with many interests but one passion: to detail, every film ever made anywhere in the world from the earliest days of cinema to the present. Now a widower, he reflects on his effortful accomplishment, which has been awarded a Guinness Record as the world's largest film-related database. We also observe him in a moment of relaxation, watching over his garden, rewilded more than forty years ago, where, every evening, generations of badgers snuffle for food, and fox cubs play in the long grass. And, through his own movies, we can observe his progress, from a Saturday morning cinema-going childhood through work and marriage to his solitary existence in a book-lined home, where he continues to find solace in his archival activities. It offers the story of his and our time through a close-up view of an unusual, extraordinary, and individual life.

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Year: 2023
Type of project: Features
Running time: 72 min
Format: Digital
Director: Chris Collier
Producer: Chris Collier, Craig Ennis
Editor: Craig Ennis
Screenwriter: Chris Collier
Director of Photography: Chris Collier, Tom Williams
Sound: Cold Pierre
Composer: Joseph Collier, Cold Pierre
Principal cast: Alan Goble, Valerie Goble, Janet Edis, Mim Raouf

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

24 Foot Square

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Hypothetical Blue

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