Film of the Same
Name follows Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball as they revisit the haunted
landscapes of their 1980s film trilogy Apostrophe S. The film melds the
filmmakers' revisiting of the locations of the original films, a workshop
re-enactment, and topographic animation, all set to a soundtrack of newly
composed songs and music with fragmentary echoes of the earlier films.
With Leigh Milsom and William Fowler reviving the original actors' performances of the ghost of a woman who dies in a car accident, and the ghost hunter who pursues her, the film becomes a cinematic revenant as elusive and intriguing as those it returns to.
The original Apostrophe S trilogy comprising: A Postcard from Boxley Hill, Green on the Horizon and Hangway Turning which were all shot on Super 8 then edited on video, predates and to some extent predicts the recent vogue for artist films which combine documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques, and the phenomenon that has become known as 'hauntology'.
With Leigh Milsom and William Fowler reviving the original actors' performances of the ghost of a woman who dies in a car accident, and the ghost hunter who pursues her, the film becomes a cinematic revenant as elusive and intriguing as those it returns to.
The original Apostrophe S trilogy comprising: A Postcard from Boxley Hill, Green on the Horizon and Hangway Turning which were all shot on Super 8 then edited on video, predates and to some extent predicts the recent vogue for artist films which combine documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques, and the phenomenon that has become known as 'hauntology'.
Notes:
Title: Film of the
Same Name
Length: 34 Mins 24
Secs
Date: 2014
Direction:
Sanderson & Ball
Cast: Leigh Milsom
as Angela Staples as Judith Langham
William Fowler as
Nigel Jacklin as Thomas Cubitt
Sanderson and Ball
as themselves
Voice- Overs: Tony
Raven, Patricia Hosking, Martin Pickles
Music: Sanderson
and Ball
Camerawork: Steven
Ball, Martin Pickles
Animation: Philip
Sanderson
Shot on location on Blue Bell Hill and Cliffe
Marshes, Kent and Central Saint Martins, London.
