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The Ghostvillage Project

United Kingdom / 2009 / 011:43 mins

This short documentary was shot in October 2009 on the remote Cowal Peninsula in the West of Scotland. It details arts collective Agents of Change's transformation of the abandoned village of Pollphail into an open air art gallery.

Year: 2009
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Subtitled: No
Colour: Colour
Ratio: 16:9
Length: 011:43
Classification: None
Director: Tim Daly

First Assistant Director: Alex Scaglia

Cinematographer: Ben Westaway

This short documentary was shot in October 2009 on the remote Cowal Peninsula in the West of Scotland. It details arts collective Agents of Change's transformation of the abandoned village of Pollphail into an open air art gallery. The brutalist 1970s concrete structures had never seen human inhabitants. The site was originally constructed ostensibly as a base to house workers needed to construct concrete oil rigs, but the plan was subsequently abandoned, and now it is ideally suited to the separate styles and methods employed by the collective. Drawing inspiration from the marked contrast between the architecture and the surrounding landscape of rolling hills, forests and lochs, the artists worked for three days through challenging physical conditions to produce foreboding yet hauntingly beautiful artwork all over the site. The viewer is rewarded with a unique insight into the world of the graffiti artist and an opportunity to experience the creative process behind such a huge undertaking.

This Film is being screened at:

The Horse Hospital on 05/05/2010. This Event Starts at 18:30 pm

This Film is being screened at:

The Horse Hospital on 05/05/2010. This Event Starts at 18:30 pm

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