Hinterland Part 1 (of 4)

The first of four episodes of Roger Thorp's 1989 short film. Black and white: Dur. 18 min.

Hinterland attempts to show the fluid boundary between the realms of reality and fiction - the dream and the fairy-tale.
Moreover, it manifests how one story takes over and creates the background for another, ad infinitum - centred around the capturing of that special point in every story where the internal and the external merge. This might perhaps be called the once upon a time effect, that point where two narratives cross each other and visualise themselves in each other, or become the image of the other, or at that point where the narrator, gradually, as an awakening, becomes aware that he himself is an actuant in the narrative he is relating, that it is about himself.
Hinterland is an exciting work, with great understanding for and knowledge of the significance of fiction. (Dr Peter Allingham)

The Narrator..........David Sibley
The Mermaid.........Candida Lamche
Pappus...................Keith Prowse
Space Kids............Jamie Prowse, Jonathon Davis
Paper Boy.............Edward Ford

Lighting Cameraman Dennis Cullum
Assistant Camera Terri Black
Sound Peter Moseley
Editor Nick Adams
Art Director Lucy Thorp
Music Sand
Written by Richard Meyrick,Roger Thorp
Directed by Roger Thorp

A Tin Circus Production

Category:

Film & Animation

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• roger
• thorp
• richard
• meyrick
• little
• song
• films
• hinterland
• experimental
• cinema
• poetic
• peter
• allingham