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DESCRIPTION:Since 2003 Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (desperate optimists) have been 
 working on a unique community film project. Civic Life is a series of seven 
 short films each shot in a day on 35mm and making daring use of the 
 long-take. Working with 35mm equipment, complex film rigs and locations, 
 not to mention hundreds of extras and a propensity for working with both 
 children and animals, they have generated a body of work that is both 
 theatrical and deeply cinematic, experimental and highly accessible.\n\nWho 
 Killed Brown Owl, UK | 2004 | 9:23\n\nA sunny day by the riverbank - the 
 perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, 
 disruption and violence. Filmed over the course of one afternoon, Who 
 Killed Brown Owl features a volunteer cast of almost 100 residents of the 
 London Borough of Enfield.\n\nWho Killed Brown Owl won the Best British 
 Short Film award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 
 2004.\n\nMoore Street, IRL | 2004 | 5:45\n\nA woman walks through a 
 deserted Dublin market street at night. A quietly powerful meditation on 
 what it means to belong to a new city and a new country.\n\nMoore Street 
 was Part of Ireland's entry into the 26th Sào Paulo Bienal.\n\nRevolution, 
 UK | 2005 | 10:16\n\nA technically astonishing circular shot depicts how a 
 community fete descends into chaos and mayhem, and there's a gorilla in the 
 library. Revolution involved 91 people from Lambeth in the shooting and was 
 filmed on location at the YMCA on Stockwell Road during a sunny afternoon 
 in September 2004.\n\nTwilight, UK | 2005 | 5:22\n\nOn a boat on the Tyne 
 during the time that cinematographers call 'The Magic Hour', a group of 
 friends listen to a revelation. Twilight is an intimate exploration of the 
 ebb and flow of life involving 5 residents from Tyneside. The film was shot 
 on the 18 May 2005.\n\nTown Hall, UK | 2005 | 10:35\n\nIt's open day at the 
 town hall, and we go on a dazzling visual journey through its mazelike 
 corridors and rooms in a celebration of community expression. Town Hall was 
 filmed on the 29th May 2005 in the stunning surrounds of the West Bromwich 
 Town Hall with the involvement of over 200 local residents.\n\nNow we are 
 grown up, UK | 2005 | 11:40\n\nCommissioned to commemorate the 20th 
 anniversary of the Cornerhouse Arts Centre in Manchester, Now we are grown 
 up was filmed in the Grand Hall of Manchester Town Hall in October 2005 
 with a cast of 14 performers all 20 years of age. Carefully positioned in a 
 circle the young people participate in a strangely unorthodox therapy 
 session confiding their fears and hopes in the face of their 
 futures.\n\nLeisure Centre, IRL/UK | 2006 | 17:42\n\nA young man returns to 
 his workplace after a life-changing event. Walking from one end of the 
 leisure centre to the other becomes a compelling emotional journey with a 
 stunnin finale. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/14/18492748.php
SUMMARY:Civic Life community films by the Desperate Optimists
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access\n992 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/14/18492748.php
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