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ROPEMAKERS was shot on location in Chatham and Portsmouth Historic Dockyards and H.M. Naval Base Portsmouth. Rope continues to be made in Chatham.
The aesthetic qualities of film helped create an atmosphere of mystery and a sense of the past; pools of light provide focus while other areas of the vast buildings are allowed to fall away to darkness.
Ex-dockyardmen and women appear in a series of historical tableaux inspired and improvised by them. They present traditions alive in the collective memory and techniques used by the performers as part of their dockyard trade.
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Formats: 16mm - optical sound
Digi-beta - stereo
Length: 61 min
Black / white and colour
Year: 2007
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CAMERA
Adam Finch
Bill Foulk
Simon Poulter
Mike Robinson
LIGHTING
Hanspeter Bertschy
Hugh Williams
SOUND
Sophie Outram
Mike McDuffie
EDITORS
Prue Waller
Sophie Outram
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
James Swinson
DUBBING MIXER
Chris Trussler
CHOREOGRAPHY
Caroline Pope
DANCERS
Caroline Pope
Nelson Fernandez
READINGS PERFORMED BY
Mark Theodore
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Curtis Lugay
Sonata in G (K471) by Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Records (KGR 1017,vol 17)
arranged and performed by
Gilbert Rowland
PERFORMERS
George Allen
Tom Beswick
Selina Chambers
Lenny Dent
Dave Hunter
Len Leeds
Dave Payne
George Prager
Stuart Read
Albert Wright
Keith Warner
Brian Wines
WRITER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR
Prue Waller
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Prue Waller
‘Ropemakers’ is Prue Waller’s first feature length film. She has made several short films using oral history and first person accounts. They look at aspects of society, culture, gender and memory. She likes to use experimental techniques and structure.
Prue has taught film and video on arts, youth and BA courses. She is a director of London Fields Film & Video. The National Film Archive plans to acquire 4 of her films. Her background is in both Fine Art Film and History/European Studies.
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Sheffield Docfest Videotheque UK
November 2007
Twin Rivers Media Festival USA
October 2007
Honorable Mention
International Panorama of Independent Film & Video Greece
September 2007
Independents Film Festival USA
September 2007
The Everglades International Film Festival South Africa
September 2007
Portobello Film Festival UK
August 2007
Swansea Film Festival UK
June 2007
Best UK Documentary
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