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    The Closer We Get

    The Closer We Get 2015 UK Documentary color 87min English, Arabic, Fre DCP
    This is a powerful and bittersweet portrait of loyalty, broken dreams and redemption. Karen's mother Ann suffers a devastating stroke that brings her daughter back home. But she isn't the only one who comes back to help care for Ann in the crisis. Her prodigal father—the endearing yet unfathomable Ian, who's been separated from Ann for years—also reappears. Reunited so unexpectedly, and armed with her camera, Karen seizes this last chance to go under the skin of the family story before it's too late.

    Director

    The Closer We Get

    GUTHRIE was raised on the West coast of Scotland and now lives on a smallholding in the rural Lake District. She met co-producer and DOP Nina POPE whilst students at Edinburgh College of Art and they have since worked together on many creative projects and commissions, winning the first Northern Art Prize in 2007 for their films and installations. Together they founded "Somewhere" in 2002 and have undertaken art commissions from the likes of Tate Modern and Cambridge University.

    Director's Statement ▾

    The Closer We Get
    • 2015《拉鏡距離》The Closer We Get
    • 2012 Jaywick Escapes
    • 2007 Living with the Tudors
    • 2005 Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future

    Director & Screenwriter/ Karen GUTHRIE
    Producer & Cinematographer/ Nina POPE, Karen GUTHRIE
    Editor/ Alice POWELL
    Sound/ Doug HAYWOOD

    Somewhere
    Karen GUTHRIE
    karen@somewhere.org.uk

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