Document / World premiere
Isolation
Stuart Griffiths
Wounded in battle? Thanks pal, but you’re on your own...
Screening with Looking Back - Emile Bokaer | USA | 2008 | 6 min
A quarter of British ex-soldiers sleep rough when they come home. Our guide in this film is one such man, who has since become a renowned photographer. As he speaks with former comrades – many of whom have taken bullets, or worse, and are now homeless – the film develops a moving testament to
the quiet dignity of people let down by the country they have served. A beautifully crafted and humane investigation of this neglected issue.
Screening with:
Looking Back
2009 Archive
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#1 Amy Shields / Friday 26 June, 2009 / 22:47 GMT
#2 Paul Laird / Saturday 27 June, 2009 / 17:42 GMT
The presence of Joy Division looms large over this powerful documentary about the lives and suffering of ex-servicemen, from the title to the Mancunian roots of the narrator and guide, photographer Stuart Griffiths.
Beautiful photography from DoP David Proctor frames the lives and tales of the men interviewed.
The suffering, both physical and emotional, is laid before you and it would be a heart of stone that fails to be moved by the stories told.
Beautiful.
Painful.