28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia

director: Paul Wright
original title: Arcadia
country: United Kingdom
year: 2017
running time: 78 min.

synopsis

100 years of archival footage in the guise of an experimental film. The magic, charm, and disorder of rural life. Cinematic memories of folk festivals, masked processions, sowing, and harvesting. The electro-acoustic music helps to define this film essay showing the beauty, brutality, and madness of rural Britain.

biography

Scottish director and screenwriter Paul Wright (1981) earned a Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2009 for his film Believe. Until the River Runs Red earned a BAFTA Award in 2011 and the Grand Prix at the Prague Short Film Festival in 2012.

more about film

director: Paul Wright
producer: Adrian Cooper, John Archer, Mark Atkin
editing: Michael Aaglund
music: Adrian Utley, Will Gregory
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
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