Title: Civic life
Authors: Molloy, Christine.; Lawlor, Joe.
Publisher: Desperate Optimists,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Short films Great Britain.
Abstract: Civic Life is a series of 7 short films including Who Killed Brown Owl, winner of the Best British Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004. Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor embarked on the Civic Life series in July 2003 with the desire to create a unique and richly cinematic series of short films made in negotiation with local residents and community groups and foregrounding the relationship these local communities have to the environments in which they live and work. Each of the films was shot in a day, on 35mm cinemascope making use of the long shot. Theaccompanying 52 page illustrated book features texts by Chris Darke, Lucy Reynolds and Sukhdev Sandhu.
Contents: Who killed Brown Owl? (9:23 min.) -- Moore Street (5:45 min.) -- Revolution (10:16 min.) -- Twilight (5:22 min.) -- Town hall (10:35 min.) -- Now we are grown up (11:40 min.) -- Leisure centre (17.42 min.)