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Field
Duane Hopkins
average rating from 26 members 
       
drama | 2001 | West Midlands | 10 min
Published 18 Oct 05
A study in everyday violence.
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some disturbing scenes
synopsis
A Sunday in the country, three boys hang around, bored. A terrible event takes place, incidentally and without provocation. The next day at school everything carries on as usual.
short fact
Field was an attempt to show the type of violent experimentation that can grow from boredom. How a terrible act can organically arise within a group of boys who are not yet ethically or morally grown. The wish was to not condemn for these actions but to point to how a person's ethics and consciousness could be shaped by such an extreme experience.
crew
  • director Duane Hopkins
  • writer Duane Hopkins
  • producer Samm Haillay
  • editor Duane Hopkins & Samm Haillay
  • director of photography Lol Crawley
  • sound Andrew Green
cast
  • Tom Kevin Firkins
  • Tim Time Dyer
  • Colin James Peacey
format
16mm/Super 16
© 2001 Duane Hopkins

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comment by Julia  Sharp
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posted Aug 31, 2009

Love this film. By far one of the best UK shorts of recent years.

comment by Katherine  Tarbet
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posted Nov 24, 2008

Usual Britfilm crap. Angsty teenage deprivation blah blah blah. Posh looking student film with nothing going on.

comment by Matthew  Carter
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posted Oct 22, 2008

I really liked this

its nice to see minimalism coming from young British filmmakers

felt it was very Bill Douglas, Bresson and Ozu like

comment by tim  cagney
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posted Sep 12, 2008


Well made but predictable

comment by Tom  Sharman
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posted Mar 20, 2008

so happy to see a real piece of cinema, the editing, acting, photography, can be faulted. there always seemed to be a clever nuance at work behind every shot or plot point.
especially love when it cuts between the assembily and the dead sheep while the assembily audio contunies! great.
only thing that let me down a bit was the end, I didnt get that point that the 'day goes on as usual' vibe until I read it after. probably me. Just wish it made more of an effort to give a stronger point at the end, rather than the 'cut to black', then the audiance thinks 'hang on what the hells go going on?' then you work it out yourself ending. anyway, im slightly drunk, and I know that film was fkin ace. x

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  • www.thecopro.de
  • www.northernmedia.org
  • www.futureshorts.co.uk
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Field was funded as part of the Firs Cut Carlton TV scheme. NPF also contributed to the funding

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