Teenager Hamlet

Synopsis: Independent experimental film exploring how young people make art and morality in the city. A painter leaves her studio, needing to know her world directly no longer through making paintings. Emerging into the streets of her own neighbourhood, she discovers a mixture of slightly out-of-balance young people. Some seem like contemporary Hamlets, preoccupied with their own political impotence and social injustice; others are like Ophelia, obsessed with their own and life’s beauty. Enlisting the help of her friends the painter follows these Hamlets and Ophelias into vacant grand hotels and through dry, abandoned fields. There is no script, just an array of questions, games and contrivances through which the director searches for what is at the heart of their neighbourhood trying to find the true story between reality and fiction, and between action and acting. [Synopsis adapted from Internet Movie Database].
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2010
Duration: 78 mins

Director

Margaux Williamson

Producer

Cinematographer

Screenplay

Music

Cast

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: Hamlet
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Untrained actors; Gender reversal

Notes: Released on DVD 2011 (US and Canada only).
History: The film was first presented as a gallery installation at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008.

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