The Host
Synopsis
While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. 'The Host' sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP (British Petroleum) Archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. 'The Host' is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 60 mins
- Format
- HD
- Director
- Miranda Pennell
- Producer
- Miranda Pennell
- Editor
- John Smith
- Screenwriter
- Miranda Pennell
- Sound
- Miranda Pennell, John Smith
- Music
- L V Beethoven, Edmund Rubbra, Majid Vafadar
- Archive
- Archive materials sourced from the BP Archive
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd April 2016
