Prison with Songbirds
Ewan Macbeth / Netherlands, United Kingdom / 2022 / World Premiere / 12 min.
synopsis
In an unspecified totalitarian country, a man is apprehended. After 110 days of suffering in prison, he's released, and hitchhikes out of the country. The film consists of descriptions of real-life events and stylized staged shots, to question the oppression inflicted onto the innocent by the state.“Prison with Songbirds is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital-celluloid collide.”
Source: https://ewanmacbeth.com/Prison-with-Songbirds-2022
biography
Ewan Macbeth (* 1992) is a Scottish artist based in Rotterdam. In his photographs and film installations, he explores the relationship between the state and the propaganda machine in Western society. His works alternate between documentary footage and staged scenes, such as in I Declared a Thumb War (2020) and Divided Together (2018).more about film
| director: | Ewan Macbeth |
| cast: | Ewan Macbeth, Mathieu Wijdeven, Ugo Petronin |
| producer: | Salvador Miranda, Ewan Macbeth |
| script: | Ewan Macbeth, Jonathan Mitchell |
| photography: | Christiaan van Leeuwen, Abel van Dijk |
| editing: | Lotte Louise de Jong, Ewan Macbeth |
| sound design: | Filip Degernäs |
| art director: | Ella Gerritssen, Marcus van Binsbergen |
contact
Ewan Macbethmacbeth.ewan@gmail.com
Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2022 |
| section: | Fascinations |
| language: | English |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Ewan Macbeth |
| original title: | Prison with Songbirds |
| country: | Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| year: | 2022 |
| running time: | 12 min. |
