HARVEST
Feature Film Selection 2024
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2h 13m
United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsman-turned farmer, Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.
Directed by: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Written by: Joslyn Barnes, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Produced by: Rebecca O’Brien, Joslyn Barnes, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche
Cinematography: Sean Price Williams
Editing: Matt Johnson
Production Design: Nathan Parker
Costume Design: Kirsty Halliday
Make-Up & Hair: Anita Brolly
Original Score: Nicolas Becker, Ian Hassett, Caleb Landry Jones, Lexx
Sound: Nicolas Becker
Visual Effects: Aspa Papageorgiou, Maria Vardaki, Lena Mitropoulou, Xenophon Philippousis, Kostas Tsakonas
Casting: Shaheen Baig
Cast: Caleb Landry Jones (Walter Thirsk), Harry Melling (Charles Kent), Rosy McEwen (Kitty Gosse), Arinzé Kene (Quill), Thalissa Teixeira (Mistress Beldam), Frank Dillane (Edmund Jordan)
Statement of the director:
With this film, an adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel ‘Harvest’, we had the chance to examine the moment when it all began for us, 21st century heirs to a universal story of land loss. To me, HARVEST is a film about reckoning. What have we done? Where do we go from here? How can we salvage our soil, the self within the commons? HARVEST takes place in a threshold realm, tracing the first ruptures of the industrial “revolution”. And revolution it hasn’t been.
An agrarian community is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the mapmaker, the people on the move, and the company man – all archetypes of shattering change. The future is not part of the story – it will happen off screen, in a world we are not meant to see. There are no heroes. Only imperfect, ordinary folks. I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its modern equivalent, a polaroid being slowly exposed to twilight.
Production:
Sixteen Films Ltd
www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
World Sales:
The Match Factory
www.the-match-factory.com
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