Of Time And The City
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Tue 30 December 2008 // 20:00
29th 30th December 8pm Terence Davies UK 2008 72 mins cert pg - £4/3
Of Time and the City is billed as a love song and a eulogy to Liverpool. A personal, moving and utterly beautiful journey with acclaimed british director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives/ Neon Bible and his Trilogy) through archived footage of the city, poetry, music and the vast and astonishing memory of the director himself. It is a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of a place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll. This is a testament to a city that has grown up unrecognisably to a new generation. The memories and researched material found provide a magical reference to recent history that has even now been erased from the footsteps of the present.
Watch this and weep, but watch it.
Of Time and the City is billed as a love song and a eulogy to Liverpool. A personal, moving and utterly beautiful journey with acclaimed british director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives/ Neon Bible and his Trilogy) through archived footage of the city, poetry, music and the vast and astonishing memory of the director himself. It is a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of a place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll. This is a testament to a city that has grown up unrecognisably to a new generation. The memories and researched material found provide a magical reference to recent history that has even now been erased from the footsteps of the present.
Watch this and weep, but watch it.