Portable Stones

Original Title: Portable Stones

Drama | 60' | 2005 (Completed)

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Director:	Orla Barry
Producer:	Liesbet Vaes, Dries Phlypo, Astrid Bonduel
Writer:	Orla Barry

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Portable Stones is about a girl who leaves her home in the noisy city. She ends up living in a tent in a graveyard and becomes involved in a dream world. In the graveyard she hears voices which carry her through time. The voices speak of not speaking, the loss of body and the difficulty of communicating. The film builds up as a poem, line by line and verse by verse.

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Portable Stones is about a girl who leaves her home in the noisy city. She ends up living in a tent in a graveyard and becomes involved in a dream world. In the graveyard she hears voices which carry her through time. The voices speak of not speaking, the loss of body and the difficulty of communicating. The film builds up as a poem, line by line and verse by verse. There is no narrative structure and the story is created by associations. There are four characters: a man living together with his speechless brothers in a hut on a deserted island. five sisters who could be modern witches and chant riddles in an old ruin. a child struggling to reproduce a text she does not understand. and an old woman who is turning blind and struggling with words as she tries to read. All four characters represent different subconscious states and emotions, set against the protagonist's daily life in the graveyard and dreamlike images from the island.

Credits

Director
Orla Barry
Producer
Liesbet Vaes, Dries Phlypo, Astrid Bonduel
Writer
Orla Barry
Cast
Allen O'Dwyer, Simon O'Dwyer, Paul O'Dwyer
Photography
Didier Frateur
Music
PJ Harvey

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Drama
Year of production

2005
Production status
Completed
Original title
Portable Stones
Original language
English

Technical specs

Running time
60'
Sound format
stereo (2.0)
Colour
Colour

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Firefly

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1080 Anderlecht
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T +32 2 520 11 83
firefly@skynet.be

www.fireflyfilms.be

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Portable Stones

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