Of Time and the City

An essay and a homage to the city in which the director was born and raised – working class Liverpool – it is also a repository of memory and a meditation on the experience of losing one’s sense of space and place down the years. A visual poem which draws on the first 28 years of Davies’ life in Liverpool until his departure in 1973. “Eloquent images” combined with pop and classical music, voices, radio show fragments and a confessional voice-over from the director. The film is a highly personal portrait of Liverpool which gets beyond the Beatles and the legendary football team. It is a film in which youthfulness and inspiration intertwine the director’s life story with that of the city he called home.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Terence Davies
Editing: Liza Ryan-Carter
Music: Music Supervisor:Ian Neil (for DNA Music Ltd and Quantum Noise)
Production: Hurricane Films Ltd.
Producers: Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
Format: Digibeta-Color-B&W
Production Country: UK
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 72
Contact: Hanway Films, UKSheerin KhosrowT. +44 207 290 0750F. +44 207 290 0751skm@hanwayfilms.comwww.hanwayfilms.comwww.oftimeandthecity.com

Terence Davies

He was born in Liverpool in 1945. He began his career under the auspices of the British Film Institute with a first short already showing autobiographical traits, Children. At the National Film School he made Madonna and Child, continued in his third short, Death and Transfiguration. These three works were brought together in what was to constitute The Terence Davies. Distant Voices, Still Lives, a masterpiece on post-war Britain, was his international revelation, winning among others the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes IFF, the Golden Leopard at the Locarno FF and the Critics’ Awards at both Los Angeles and Toronto. With The Neon Bible, Davies gave his career something of a new direction on adapting a novel by writer John Kennedy Toole and shooting the movie in the USA. His most recent film Of Time and the City, which was premiered in Cannes IFF 2008, reveals amasterly use of archivematerial in constructing an emotional and critical discourse on urban evolution in Liverpool over the last 50 years.

Filmography

1976-1983 The Terence Davies Trilogy:
Children(1976), Madonna and Child(1980), Death and Transfiguration(1983)
1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives
1992 The Long Day Closes
1995 The Neon Bible
2000 The House of Mirth
2008 Of Time and the City