I Am Belfast
Synopsis
"Belfast, it’s a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself." Mark Cousins.
A unique film about an infamous place, with this 10,000 year old woman as our free spirited walking tour guide. Starting in the here and now, with the everyday, we move on to the dream life of the city, mapping the voices of women and the liminal spaces, the unnoticed and the unloved things about this place. But she also looks back and she sees the tragedy and the horror of what went before. She remembers everything… 'I Am Belfast' highlights Mark Cousins’ influences, inherently cinematic, but all the while underscored by the influence of the grandparents, the mothers, the brothers and the women of the city he comes from.
Belfast Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 84 mins
- Director
- Mark Cousins
- Producer
- John Archer, Chris Martin
- Executive Producer
- Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
- Editor
- Timo Langer
- Screenwriter
- Mark Cousins
- Director of Photography
- Christopher Doyle, Mark Cousins
- Production Designer
- Shane Bunting
- Sound
- Marty Harrison
- Music
- David Holmes, featuring Van Morrisson
- Principal Cast
- Helena Bereen, Felicity McKee, Richard Buick, Shane McCaffrey
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd April 2016
