Movie Details
Original Language:English
Game Keepers Without Game
DirectorEmily Wardill
1 hr 30 min
Plot
Game Keepers Without Game is the artists reimagining of the 17thcentury play Life Is a Dream La Vida es Sueño 1635 by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Set in contemporary London Wardills meticulously constructed film tells the story of a schizophrenic young girl put up for adoption by her family at age eight By the time she is a teenager her fathers guilt leads him to devise a plan for her return home Yet by this time the divide within the family is too great the girls psychosis and destructive response to the objects and people around her leads to tragic consequences Set to a hypnotic drumming soundtrack which highlights the spatial construction of the film the narrative unfolds with a refractive precision juxtaposing inanimate objects with the play of multiple characters
