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Broken Crowns
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1992Item number (ISN):244306Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVALAccession:1996-0041Media:VideoPart:1 of 1Production date:1992Production company:Chemical PicturesProduction credit:director/executive producer/scenario/editing/sound editing, David Clark; producer, David Coole; photography, Andrew Ellis; sound, Alex Busby; James Nickleson; sound editing, Andy DowdenCast credit:Richard Wolfe, Martha Irving, Melissa Mullen, Jay CarmichealDescription:BROKEN CROWNS is a post-modern fairy tale about chemisty, castration coincidence, and conspiracy theory. The story follows Jack, a chemist obsessed with the periodic table; his sister, Jill, a PhD in child psychology; his girlfriend, a photographer who is also named Jill; and his friend, David, who comes to stay. After Jack and his sister visit the mysterious Bardon Hill in England, Jack disappears from photographs taken of him and finds himself becoming more and more insignificant in his friends' lives. The tale weaves together the work of Goethe, Freud, Wagner, Brecht, the painting of Jacques Louis David, the life of the chemist Lavoisier, and the assissination of John F. Kennedy. <50mn>Language:EnglishNotes:Technique:EXPERIMENTALDetailed holdings information: -
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