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Title: CEILING MAN

Reference number: 7904

Date: 2001

Director: d. James Alcock

Producer: James Alcock

Production company: Yarmo Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: Mini DV

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 31.00 mins

Description: "Ceiling Man" reveals the relationship between a film maker and his subject over a six month period, charting the physical decline of a heroin addict who when infected by a shared needle poisons his bloodstream. The film maker is warmly invited into the life of Sandy the Street Piper / Street Artist, as he discusses his past, his present, his mental health and his philosophies on life. [synopsis from Documentary Film Festival Programme]

Winner of BAFTA New Talent award for the best documentary, 2002. Shown at Document 1: International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival on 21st September 2003. See also ref. 7925

See also article in the Sunday Times about this film, published 21/9/2003.

Credits: The following film is an account of the time I spent with Alexander Blackwood between the months of January - June 2001.

filmed, ed., d. and p. James Alcock
m. Jenny Niven
m. consultant Graham Anderson

"Fire and Rain" written and performed by James Taylor 1969 Country Road Music, Inc./ Blackwood Music, Inc. BNI.

Thee Candlestick ov Green: Cruel Insects (Anything for You) mixed by DJ Derbastler and Danilkin. Mastered by Ebreh Productions. Distributed by Media Distribution. (p) Sale! Publishing © Sale Records / Nova Records 2000

technical support Simon Hipkins
online ed. James Nicolas

Special thanks Michael McCann and the Janitors of the Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow.

Filmed on location in Glasgow and Edinburgh 2001, using MiniDV and Kodachrome 64.

A Yarmo Production 2001.