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In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

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In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Palestine / UK / Denmark / Qatar 2015, 29 min, cinescope, color, Arabic with Engl. or French ST
Directors Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind | Writer Søren Lind | Producer Ali Roche, Spike Film and Video | Executive Producer Film London | Director of Photography Thomas Fryd | Production Designer Simon Godfrey | Editors Daniel Martinez, William Dybeck Sørensen | Visual Effects Supervisor Henrik Bach Christensen | Post Producer William Dybeck Sørensen | Costume Designer Line Frank | Composer Aida Nadeem | Supervising Sound Editor Tom Sedgwick | Cast: Resistance Leader Pooneh Hajimohammadi | Girl 1 Anna Aldridge | Girl 2 Leyla Ertosun | Voice actors: Resistance Leader (voice) Larissa Sansour | Psychiatrist (voice) Carol Sansour

Larissa Sansour – Sci-fi Trilogy
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2015) completes Larissa Sansour’s science fiction trilogy along with A Space Exodus (2008) and Nation Estate (2012). Under the common themes of loss, belonging, heritage and national identity, the three films each explore different aspects of the political turmoil the Middle East. more


screenings/awards | film-makers Larissa Sansour & Soren Lind | background material | Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Trilogy

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