Dead The Ends 2017 Ages 15+
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When
6.00pm, Fri 9 Feb 2018 (106 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
'Bookended by the 2011 London riots, Benedict Seymour's dramatically, politically urgent new film retells the story of Chris Marker's La Jetée. A man has been sent back into the past as a way of rescuing the future, his tale told by way of the Narrator who riffs on familiar film dialogue and contemporary references – unpicking the political implications of his journey and our retro obsessions. A collage, narrative, essay film hybrid, 'Dead the Ends', plunders some fifty years of cinema – including dystopian sci-fi – and uses emojis and gifs as ways of exploring the undercurrents of historical and current visual language, as well as present entrenched, systemic inequality. Cross-currents of thought and broad swathes of material are incisively manoeuvred, whilst, in its intellectually and dramatically gripping shape and scope, the piece feels part-situationist, part-Borgesian. It asks, in richly creative fashion, how did we get here?' London Film Festival
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 106 minutes