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Director
Mark Cousins
Credits
Producer:John ArcherChris Martin
Writer:Mark Cousins
Music:David Holmes
Category
Documentary
Part documentary, part reverie, I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film exploration of the city he calls home. Incorporating contemporary dream-like sequences, archival film and a haunting score by David Holmes, the film portrays the city in an ethereal light not usually associated with Belfast. No stranger to the documentary essay form, Cousins (director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey) wanted to present the city in a way it hadn’t been seen before. He has created an unashamedly abstract and visually beautiful tapestry, but one which is politically engaged, where Belfast is embodied as a 10,000-year-old woman who has witnessed the Troubles but whose streets are now enlivened by the voices of the garrulous inhabitants. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn
84 minutes, UK, 2015, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (PROGRAMME 1) 12:40
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 18.00
LA CHIMERA 15.15, 18.00
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 13:00, 20:30
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER 13:10, 15:45
MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING 16:00, 20:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:25, 20:20
WORLD CINEMA PROJECT: TOUKI BOUKI 18.30
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