Portfolio > THIS CITY IS AN ILLUSION: THE DEBT (2023)

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.

Credits:
Written and Directed by Jake Astbury (2009 - 2023)
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

Copyright Astbury Films / Jake Astbury / 2023


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