Projects matching: Carol Morley

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In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, a non-conformist, forgotten artist persuades her psychiatric nurse to take her on a road trip back to where her story began – but with so many deviations into the past along the way, will they ever make it?

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When female homicide detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
'Out of Blue' is a neo-noir detective story, a metaphysical mystery revolving around contemporary Atlanta and the mysteries of the universe, in which Mike’s quest for the truth destabilizes her view of the world, and herself.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Platform - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices

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Inspired by a true story about an outbreak of mass hysteria in a girls' high school in England in the 1960s, 'The Falling' tells the story of Louise, the troubled girl at the centre of a mysterious fainting epidemic, who is determined to find out the cause of the illness spreading through her school.
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years after her death in one of the busiest parts of London.

Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above Shopping City in Wood Green. Nobody noticed. Nearly three years later, her flat was forced into by authorities due to lack of rent payment. Her skeleton was found surrounded by Christmas presents that she was in the process of wrapping. Her television was still on.

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A washed-up pop star arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman who is desperate to recover her past.
 
An older woman checks into a room with dark intent, but encounters a chambermaid who refuses to leave her alone. A blind date set up on the Internet between two teenagers fails to turn out like either of them expected.
 
Over the course of two days and one night the hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to thaw - and to find a purpose that connects them all.

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In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and some women thought that their genitalia were vanishing, while schoolgirls in Belgium thought that they were being poisoned by a certain brand of fizzy drink. Looking at these various cases, and more, the professor takes us on a musical journey through mass hysteria.

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Annie wants to find her cat and forget her past. She walks the streets of the East End of London, in the footsteps of Josef Stalin and Mahatma Gandhi. Annie's obsessive journey through local history triggers an unravelling of her own life.

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Oh Odessa! is loosely based on Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary film 'The Battleship Potemkin'. Made on a shoestring, with a cast of five, it consists of a series of black and white stills with classic intertitles telling the story of how a group of sailor girls liberate their battleship.

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Based on the filmmaker's collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life. The characters demonstrate their longings as we witness their thwarted lives and strategies for survival eg a woman who can't stop jogging, a man obsessed with Claudia Schiffer.

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Film maker Carol Morley retraces the journey to India she took years before: where her friend and travelling companion, Corky, nearly died in an accident.

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The Alcohol Years is Carol Morley's personal odyssey of rediscovery through the people that once populated her alcohol fueled life in Manchester between 1982 and 1987. These years span the opening of the Hacienda night club to the 'tenth summer', a ten year anniversary of punk.

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Set in England in 1977, The Week Elvis Died is an evocative and bittersweet look at life from a child's point of view. Karen aged 10 is bullied at school by Julie and her gang. Her dysfunctional family can't help her and she doesn't confide in them. All she has for comfort are her descant recorder, her pet rabbit Elvis and her adoration of top disc jockey Tony Blackburn.