WHO KILLED BROWN OWL
It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. Burnt sunbathers, beer-drinking kids, an abandoned baby, a rabbit in a boat…
| regia/director christine molloy, joe lawlor sceneggiatura /screenplay christine molloy, joe lawlor fotografia/cinematographer ole bratt birkeland montaggio/editing christine molloy, joe lawlor musica / music vaughan williams suono / sound dolby mono cast/cast 100 residenti del distretto londinese di enflield – 100 local resident of the london borough of enflield genere /genre fiction formato originale/original format 35 mm – color durata/running time 9’ 53’’ anno di produzione/year of production 2004 paese di produzione/country of production inghilterra – england produzione/production desperate optimists distribuzione/distribution desperate optimists |
Christine Molloy (1965) works together with Joe Lawlor (1963) as Desperate Optimists. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland they have lived and worked in the UK since 1987, making works or a variety of media and contexts including digital arts, video, film, radio and performance. Joe Lawlor (1963) works together with Christine Molloy (1965) as Desperate Optimists. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland they have lived and worked in the UK since 1987, making works or a variety of media and contexts including digital arts, video, film, radio and performance. Christine Molloy: 2004 Revolution (corto, short); Civic life: Moore Street (corto, short); Who killed Brown Owl (corto, short) Joe Lawlor: 2004 Revolution (corto, short); Civic life: Moore Street (corto, short); Who killed Brown Owl (corto, short) It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. Burnt sunbathers, beer-drinking kids, an abandoned baby, a rabbit in a boat, a bicycle accident – in Who Killed Brown Owl, the perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. With more than a passing reference to the ‘narrative’ paintings by masters such as Bruegel, this spectacular single take 9-minute short is about a lazy Sunday afternoon that goes horribly wrong. |
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