Black Country - A Film From England
Louis Price
Synopsis
An atmospheric journey into the heart of modern England, filmmaker Louis Price weaves together scenes of everyday life within the Black Country in the West Midlands. An area once so industrialised the sky appeared black during the day, and red during the night, today the Black Country is a place of ghosts, existing in the aftermath of its industrial past. Black Country - A Film From England takes place entirely in one day, observing crematoriums, night clubs, UKIP pubs, living rooms and Council Chambers with a hallucinatory eye that presents no easy answers, or neat narrative resolves.
Mixing a combination of industrial archive footage, experimental sound design (wax cylinder recordings, player piano, distorted 78 RPM records), with stripped back austere camera compositions and mysterious, mundane and sometimes unsettling subjects, Black Country is a distorted postcard from a confused and increasingly indecipherable England. https://louisprice.org/black-country
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 66 min 26 sec
- Format
- Digital 2K
- Director
- Louis Price 1st Feature
- Producer
- Martin Wells
- Co-Producer
- John Bradburn
- Executive Producer
- James Collie
- Editor
- Francis Watson, Louis Price
- Screenwriter
- Louis Price
- Director of Photography
- Louis Price
- Sound
- Note Bleue
- Music
- Note Bleue
- Principal Cast
- Max Vann, Daniel Griffith
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 7th April 2020
