Bright Phoenix
Synopsis
BRIGHT PHOENIX is a prism of a drama within a documentary that explores the uncomfortable shifts in psychogeography as Liverpool is ripped down and rebuilt. The centrepiece is a performance film of Jeff Young's live play, set within the prism of a documentary lament of Lime Street, the gateway to the city; a row of gin palaces and picture palaces, a rallying point for the sundry of Liverpool, once a peoples’ playground, then left to rot before demolition and a sterile desecration of the past in the form of ‘regeneration’.
Ghosts, childhood innocence, the glory of film in the imagination, neglected but etched in pictures, splendid forever.
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 116 mins
- Format
- Mixed media - film and digital
- Director
- JP Maxwell
- Producer
- JP Maxwell
- Executive Producer
- Jeff Young
- Editor
- John Carroll Gibbons
- Screenwriter
- Jeff Young
- Principal Cast
- Cathy Tyson
Genre
Production status
Post-production
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Last updated 30th May 2019
