Further Beyond (2016)
- Directed by
- Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Ireland
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
It is a film about making a biographical documentary of a historical figure. The filmmakers question how truthfully a life can be represented and explore the limits of storytelling.
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What happens
Further Beyond is a 2016 Irish film by Desperate Optimists (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor) that has been described as "part essay, documentary and quirky drama" and a 'masterpiece of intricate if indirect construction.' The film is very loosely based on the story of Ambrosio O'Higgins, an Irish-Spanish colonial administrator who served the Spanish Empire as captain general of Chile from 1788 to 1796 and as viceroy of Peru from 1796 to 1801. However, as David Jenkins notes in Little White Lies, it is a "movie biopic that’s been carefully pulled inside-out, interested in posing questions about the ethics of representation and what it means to deliver personal history as objective fact". Further Beyond was made under the Arts Council Ireland Reel Art scheme. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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