Country: UK
Year: 2015
Duration: 60'
Miranda Pennell is investigating her family’s involvement with BP, the oil company created by the British and the Iranian governments during the imperial century. The filmmaker finds some letters written in the 1930s by a geologist who moved to Iran to study the origins of our civilization. By chance, personal memories intertwine with historical events, revealing unexpected connections.
Biography
film director
Miranda Pennel
Miranda Pennell studied contemporary dance and visual anthropology. She currently works in video art, filmmaking, documentaries, collective performances, and has exhibited her work in some of the most prestigious art galleries in Europe: the Tate and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, and the Kunsthaus in Zurich. In 2013 she received the Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship to research the colonial archives. The Host is her first feature documentary.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tattoo (cm, doc., 2001), Human Radio (cm, doc., 2002), Magnetic North (cm, doc., 2003), Fisticuffs (cm, doc., 2004), You Made Me Love You (cm, doc., 2005), Drum Room (cm, doc., 2007), Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed (cm, doc., 2010), The Host (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“The starting point for The Host was a disorderly mass of materials drawn from BP’s visual archive documenting the company’s origins in Iran, which I wanted to bring to life. I was interested in the role of BP and the British government in Iran’s traumatic 20th century. It became apparent that the intersection of an Imperial history and a personal history would provide a way to mediate the abstractions of big historical events through living memory and the lens of personal experience.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, interprete, produttore/director, story, cast, producer
Miranda Pennell
montaggio/film editing
John Smith
suono/sound
Miranda Pennell, John Smith
contatti/contacts
Miranda Pennell
contact@mirandapennell.com
www.mirandapennell.com
Miranda Pennell
montaggio/film editing
John Smith
suono/sound
Miranda Pennell, John Smith
contatti/contacts
Miranda Pennell
contact@mirandapennell.com
www.mirandapennell.com
