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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
A QUIET LOVE 18.00
HAMNET 15.30
IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY 13.10, 20.40
JEAN-LUC GODARD: ALPHAVILLE 18.20
MY FATHER’S SHADOW 13.00
NO OTHER CHOICE 13.00
SENTIMENTAL VALUE 15.20
THE BIGGER PICTURE: BEFORE SUNRISE 20.30
THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE 15.45, 18.10 (OC)
THE SECRET AGENT 20.10
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