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Title: SEAT IN SHADOW

Reference number: 13880

Date: 2017

Director: d. Henry Coombes

Sponsor:

Production company: La Belle Allée Productions

Sound: sound

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 81 mins

Description: La Belle Allee Productions is delighted to present Seat In Shadow, a feature length film by Henry Coombes, in which the quiet domesticity of reclusive artist Albert is pitted against the raucous self absorption of gay youth cultures' excesses, in a hilarious exploration of analytical extremes. When he's challenged by his good friend Marcelle to apply his years of psychotheraputic experience to curing her lazy homosexual grandson Ben of his inertia and fear of happiness in a cold dark Scotland, a fantastic journey of wit and imagination unfolds, as Albert attempts to get to the root of what's making Ben so afraid - with the help of You Tube advice guru Petunia and a cheese plant.

A bravura performance by actor David Sillars makes Coombes debut feature a witty and delightful joy, while still retaining all the hallmarks of a truly original and authentic artist film-maker...Seat in Shadow is a tour de force of bravaura film-making. Exploring the connections between consciousness and creativity, filmmaker Henry Coombes challenges the view to assume the posture of a voyeur, encouraging them to see the role of psychosynethesis therapy as a means to get to heart of the problems besetting the beleaguered boy bugged by unhappiness... [Synopsis taken from La Belle Alee Productions website, http://www.labelleallee.com/film/feature-film-and-tv?id=293556, last accessed- 12/10/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BFI, BBFC, Newcastle University website and La Belle Allée Productions.

Credits: [Director: Henry Coombes
Executive Producer: Karen M. Smyth
Executive Producer for Creative Scotland: Rosie Crerar
Producer: Deva Smith
Written by: Henry Coombes, David Sillars
Cinematographer: David Liddell
Editor: Kurosh Kani, Geri Toth
Production Designer: Henry Coombes
Art Director: Sam Devereux
Music: Tut Vu Vu

Cast
Henry Coombes (Petulia)
Ross Hunter (Rossy)
Jonathan Leslie (Ben)
Marcella Mclntosh (Granny)
Jo McQuaid (Ginger Jo)
Lee Partridge (Adam)
Gordon Robertson (Gordon)
Matthew Scott (Matty)
David Sillars (Albert)
Joe Venters (Jo)
Robert Williamson (Bouncer)]