SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Independent experimental film exploring how young people make art and morality in the city. A painter leaves her studio, needing to know her world directly no longer through making paintings. Emerging into the streets of her own neighbourhood, she discovers a mixture of slightly out-of-balance young people. Some seem like contemporary Hamlets, preoccupied with their own political impotence and social injustice; others are like Ophelia, obsessed with their own and life’s beauty. Enlisting the help of her friends the painter follows these Hamlets and Ophelias into vacant grand hotels and through dry, abandoned fields. There is no script, just an array of questions, games and contrivances through which the director searches for what is at the heart of their neighbourhood trying to find the true story between reality and fiction, and between action and acting. [Synopsis adapted from Internet Movie Database].

Language

English

Country

Canada

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

2010

Duration

78 mins

Credits

Director

Margaux Williamson

Producer

Julia Rosenberg

Cinematographer

Lee Towndrow

Screenplay

Sheila Heti

Music

Steven Kado

Cast

Margaux Williamson	The artist
Sheila Heti
Sholem Krishtalka

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Plays

Hamlet

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Untrained actors; Gender reversal

Notes

Notes

Released on DVD 2011 (US and Canada only).

History

The film was first presented as a gallery installation at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008.

Production Company

Name

January Films

Name

KRK Media

Online Retailer

Name

amazon.com

Web

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