Unseen: The Lives of Looking
Dryden Goodwin
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Dryden Goodwin
Synopsis
’Unseen: The Lives of Looking’ focuses on four individuals with a distinct relationship to looking - an eye surgeon, a planetary explorer, a human rights lawyer and an artist/filmmaker. Told through Dryden Goodwin’s closely observed drawings, camera work and multilayered soundtrack, it explores different scales, forms and reasons for looking, in a poetic and metaphysically charged journey. Revealing the empathy and dexterity of an eye surgeon, working with the fragile human eye; the quest of a NASA planetary explorer to decode the cosmos and find evidence of life on Mars; and the scrutiny of the British government, by a human rights lawyer, in extraordinary rendition, drone attack and mass surveillance cases. The film’s perspectives range from minute details to panoramic expanses, building an atmospheric and sensual matrix around its subjects. Goodwin includes fleeting vignettes of strangers and a brief focus on his father and son, highlighting the tension in his work between intimacy and anonymity. The film considers both the physical act of looking and how we perceive the world around us: how we contemplate the known and the unknown, the personal and the remote and the imaginative leaps taken to reveal what might be concealed or out of sight. http://www.drydengoodwin.com
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 90 mins
- Format
- 4K video
- Director
- Dryden Goodwin 1st Feature
- Producer
- Jo Cole, Sarah Caddy
- Co-Producer
- Dryden Goodwin Projects, Red Bee Media
- Executive Producer
- Gareth Evans
- Editor
- Dryden Goodwin, Jo Cole
- Screenwriter
- Dryden Goodwin
- Director of Photography
- Dryden Goodwin
- Sound
- Dryden Goodwin
- Music
- Dryden Goodwin
- Principal Cast
- Prof Sir Peng Tee Khaw, Prof Sanjeev Gupta, Rosa Curling, Jeffrey Goodwin, Fynn Cole-Goodwin
- Researchers
- Jo Cole, Imran Perretta
- Production managers
- Harriet Masterson, Sukey Richardson
- Production, Camera and Sound Assistants
- Brada Barassi, Imran Perretta
- Sound Mastering
- Tony Perretta
- Production Lawyer
- Guy Swillingham
- Production accountants
- Perlin Franco Ltd
- Funded by
- Royal Museums Greenwich, Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust, Red Bee Media
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 3rd August 2015
