AWARDED OUTSTANDING EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE FILM - CINEAUTOPSIA, BOGOTÁ
A celluloid ghost materialises inside the ruins of a mysterious phantom cinema, beginning a phantasmagoric drift through death, rebirth, and the bardo like spaces in between.
Ghost Amber is a poetic reflection on the slow vanishing of analogue film, blending animation, documentary, found footage, archive material and supernatural horror.
Following on from his co-directorial documentary features KanZeOn (2011) with Neil Cantwell, The Creeping Garden (2014) with Jasper Sharp, and the experimental short Films To Break Projectors (2017), Ghost Amber is Tim Grabham’s first solo directorial feature.
Contributing to the project are an assembly of film makers, artists, choreographers and archivists, with the soundtrack to the film including music by Yetti, AQAXA, Stephen Thrower, Maria Marzaioli, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ta2mi, Leonidas & Hobbes feat. Riad Abji, Colin Bradford, dissolving path, Love Street Division.
The Tibetan word Bardo is translated as a gap, interval, intermediate state, transitional process or in between, and usually refers to the gap between lives. In Ghost Amber, the journey of the film ghost through the Bardo’s is analogous to the transitional state of celluloid film, from its demise on a commercial scale in the second decade of the new millennium, to its revival as a cinematic substrate driven by enthusiasts and artists passionate for the medium.
Ghost Amber is structured in 5 chapters; The Phantom Cinema, Timeflesh, The Mutating Canvas, Alchemy, and The Impermanent Universe. Each chapter resonates with the journey from death to rebirth by way of the three bardo’s in between. To manifest this journey, multiple genres are drawn upon such as observational documentary, supernatural horror, avant garde and the Hollywood musical.
Shot in Taiwan, Europe and the UK.
Supported by Screen Archive Southeast.
AWARDED OUTSTANDING EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE FILM - CINEAUTOPSIA, BOGOTÁ
A celluloid ghost materialises inside the ruins of a mysterious phantom cinema, beginning a phantasmagoric drift through death, rebirth, and the bardo like spaces in between.
Ghost Amber is a poetic reflection on the slow vanishing of analogue film, blending animation, documentary, found footage, archive material and supernatural horror.
Following on from his co-directorial documentary features KanZeOn (2011) with Neil Cantwell, The Creeping Garden (2014) with Jasper Sharp, and the experimental short Films To Break Projectors (2017), Ghost Amber is Tim Grabham’s first solo directorial feature.
Contributing to the project are an assembly of film makers, artists, choreographers and archivists, with the soundtrack to the film including music by Yetti, AQAXA, Stephen Thrower, Maria Marzaioli, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ta2mi, Leonidas & Hobbes feat. Riad Abji, Colin Bradford, dissolving path, Love Street Division.
The Tibetan word Bardo is translated as a gap, interval, intermediate state, transitional process or in between, and usually refers to the gap between lives. In Ghost Amber, the journey of the film ghost through the Bardo’s is analogous to the transitional state of celluloid film, from its demise on a commercial scale in the second decade of the new millennium, to its revival as a cinematic substrate driven by enthusiasts and artists passionate for the medium.
Ghost Amber is structured in 5 chapters; The Phantom Cinema, Timeflesh, The Mutating Canvas, Alchemy, and The Impermanent Universe. Each chapter resonates with the journey from death to rebirth by way of the three bardo’s in between. To manifest this journey, multiple genres are drawn upon such as observational documentary, supernatural horror, avant garde and the Hollywood musical.
Shot in Taiwan, Europe and the UK.
Supported by Screen Archive Southeast.