| Director: | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
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| Production: | Sixteen Films, Rebecca O’Brien, Louverture Films (Joslyn Barnes), Match Factory Productions (Viola Fügen, Michael Weber), Haos Film (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Elias Katsoufis), Why Not, Meraki Film (Marie-Elena Dyche) |
| Running Time: | 131’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, USA |
| Main Cast: | Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane |
| Screenplay: | Joslyn Barnes, Athina Rachel Tsangari
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| Cinematographer: | Sean Price Williams |
| Editor: | Matt Johnson, Nico Leunen
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| Production Designer: | Nathan Parker
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| Music: | Nicolas Becker, Ian Hassett, Caleb Landry Jones, Lexx
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| Sound: | Nicolas Becker
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Cinema
Harvest
Venezia 81 Competition
Synopsis
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsmanturned-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.
Director’s Statement
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—twentyfirst-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 map-maker, 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 offscreen, 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/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1: Sixteen Films - Rebecca O Brien
2nd Floor, 187 Wardour Street
W1F 8ZB, London, United Kingdom
Tel. 44 2077340168
rebecca@sixteenfilms.co.uk
PRODUCTION 2: Louverture Films LCC - Joslyn Barnes
101 W. 23rd St. #283
10010, New York, United States of America
Tel. 1 212 229 3960
joslynbarnes@icloud.com
PRODUCTION 3: Match Factory Productions GmbH - Viola Fügen, Michael Weber
Domstr. 60
50668, Cologne, Germany
Tel. 49 0221 5397090
info@matchfactory.de
PRODUCTION 4: Haos Film - Athina Rachel Tsangari, Elias Katsoufis
10 Agiou Markou Str
105 60, Athens, Greece
Tel. 30 6974826459
elias@haosfilm.com
WORLD SALES: The Match Factory GmbH - Thania Dimitrakopoulou
Domstr. 60
50668, Cologne, Germany
Tel. 49 0221 5397090
info@matchfactory.de
PRESS OFFICE: Charles McDonald
charles@charlesmcdonald.co.uk
