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Part factual document using personal film archive and real interviews, part fictional narrative shot across central and south east London; This City Is An Illusion: The Debt, follows the fragmented psycho-odyssey of a London Soho Debt Collector suffering from psychosis, whose past, present and future congeal, his world and its characters splintering into a cyclic ritual of remembering, retelling and retribution, against the ominous backdrop of Canary Wharf Financial Centre.
Written and Directed by Jake Astbury
Cast:
Omar Shaker as Gabriel
James Tweedy as The Horse
Sarah Rush as Faith
Karen McCaffrey as Mrs Jones
Scarlet Rose McCaffrey as Little Girl
Technical Specifications:
Format:
Mini-DV Anamorphic, cropped HD, Super8, 16mm.
Aspect Ratio: 2.70:1
Sound: Stereo
Colour and Black and White
UK
Duration: 21 minutes, 21 seconds
Versions:
2009 16:9 Letterbox 70 minutes,
2023 2.70:1native, 21mins, 21seconds.
Copyright AstburyFilm / Jake Astbury 2023