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Title: POLLPHAIL

Reference number: 8122

Date: 2009

Director: d. Matthew Lloyd

Sponsor: The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Carina Wilson

Production company: Clarity Productions Ltd.

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.59 mins

Description: Creative documentary painting a startling portrait of a village in limbo through the eyes of a property dealer and an artist who share an obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, built to great acclaim and expense during the 1970s oil boom. Combining unusual use of archive with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape, “Pollphail” unravels the unique and unsettling history to reveal a very different future than was planned for the village, and clashing ideals about how its life should now play out.

Part of Season 6 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Future".

Credits: A Bridging the Gap Production in association with Scottish Screen, BBC Scotland and Clarity Productions

exec. p. Sarah Tierney
d. ph. Minttumaari Mantynen
ed. Timo Langer
sd. rec. Dougie Fairgrieve
m. Neil Simpson and Mike Gallagher
online ed. Ian Ballnatyne
dubbing mixer Travis Reeves
archive footage BFI National Archive, Exxon Mobil, Scottish Screen Archive National Library of Scotland, STV

property dealer Alan Bradley
artist Mick McGraw

Thanks to Sam Collier, Rebecca Day, Calum Millar, Emily Munro, J.G. Lindsay Pate, Fiona Reid, Bill and Christine Stewart

development producer for Highlands and Islands Enterprise Amanda Millen
Bridging the Gap p. man. Finlay Pretsell
exec. p. for Bridging the Gap Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Leslie Finlay
exec. p. for BBC Scotland Ewan Angus
supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

© Clarity Productions Ltd. MMIX

Shotlist: Creative documentary “Pollphail” tells the story of a village in limbo, through the eyes of a property dealer and an artist who share an obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, built to great acclaim and expense during the 1970s oil boom which gripped Scotland. Combining an unusual use of ‘minds-eye’ archive material with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape, “Pollphail” unravels the unique and unsettling story to reveal a very different reality than that which was planned for the village, and clashing ideals about how its future should now play out… [synopsis from Clarity Productions website at http://www.producingclarity.com/productions/i52/pollphail, last accessed 26/2/2010]