The Obituary Show is a performance-to-camera by Augusto Cascales, based on a script by the poet CAConrad, starring Louis Romanus and Megan Peacock.
This satirical dark comedy tells a morbid family story of a single mother and her two dysfunctional grown-up children, Clifford and Freya Conrad.
The film is named after Clifford’s TV Show, in which he reads the obituaries from the newspapers, followed by his social commentary. Clifford is so disillusioned with humanity that he turns to the dead instead. His mother overindulges him, and Freya is not having any of it.
Driven by humour, despair, nonconformity, and a desire for justice, the film begs the question: where do we go when we have run out of hope?
Cinematography: RM
Costume design: Raquel de Carvalho.
Vermont Internartional Film Festival 2022
Experiments in Queer Cinema curated by Angelo Madsen Minax
A film by Tim Walker
Co Director - Emma Dalzell-Khan
Creative Direction - Augusto Cascales
Set Design - Shona Heath
Fashion Stylist - Gerry O’Kane
Hair / Wig Creation - Pablo Kümin
Starring - Salvia & Lewis Walker
Choreography - Lewis Walker
ONE – Written & Composed by Andrew Butler and ANOHNI
Voice – ANOHNI
Drums – Budgie
All other instruments – Andrew Butler
Drums recorded by Michael Ungerer at Blackbird Studios Berlin
Producer - Susannah Phillips
DOP - Jeremy Valender
1st AD - Carla Kaempfer
1st AC - Barney Batchelor
2nd AC - William Crafts Steadicam
Op - Richard James-Lewis
Grip - Peter Olney Playback
Op - Philippe Clavier
Rigger - Mark Spring
Camera Trainee - Max Blackwood
Gaffer - Paul Burns
Electrician / Desk Op - Jon Prentice
Electrician - Damien Gray
Electrician - Daniel Burns
Set Design Team - Plum Woods, Charlotte Osborne, Carolina Mariares, Hannah Knowles
Set Construction - Andy Knight Studio
Stylist Assistant - Antoni Jankowski
Tailor - Della George
Custom wardrobe and special thanks to Vicki Sarge, Genevieve Devinie & Bradley Sharpe
Accessories by Amrapali, Pebble & Manolo Blahnik
Hair Assistant - Tsuyoshi Tamai
SFX Make-Up - Sophie Gia Moore
MUA Assistant - Tina Kharti
Production Manager - Laura Heilanen
Editor - Tom Chick
Post / Colour - Grade Coffee & TV
Colourist - Simona Cristea
Flame Artist - Callum Wellby
SFX - Dizzy Zebra
Production - Truro Productions
Big thanks to …..
Big Sky Studios
Panavision
Cinelab
Thom Godsil
BMG
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