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THE VEILED CITY

Natalie Cubides-Brady
UK, 2023
13 min.

The Veiled City is a sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. We are invited to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate emergency and our global destiny.

The travelogue of an entity from the presumably disastrous future who goes back to 1952’s London becomes a reflection on what can be categorized as “normality” at a given point in history, the film contrasting the notion with the changes in optics that come with the passing of time. Diseases, both human and systemic, are tolerated as long as they work slowly, as long as they do not cause any noticeable disruption. The visitor’s eye wanders through thousands of metres of black and white and visually noisy film stock, and glances at silhouettes of people and machines alike, textiles and metal, intact, dismantled, or irreparably damaged – all engulfed in the fog as if it were a cursed veil. (Emil Vasilache)

Data proiecție și locație

Wednesday, 27th of September | 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Natalie Cubides-Brady

Natalie Cubides-Brady is a filmmaker with a visual arts background working at the intersection of documentary and fiction. Her short hybrid documentary, Beyond the North Winds, about the legacy of a decommissioned nuclear reactor in Scotland, was selected for Sundance London, Visions du Réel, and Edinburgh. It won Best Short Screenplay at the Poitiers Film Festival and was nominated for an IDA Documentary award. Another of her films, After the Silence, was shortlisted for a Grierson. In 2019 she graduated from the NFTS with a MA in Documentary Directing. Upon graduating, she was invited to take part in the European Film Promotion’s Future Frames: Generation Next at Karlovy Vary. In 2021 she had a project selected for the Short Form Station at Berlinale Talents. She is currently developing her first feature.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • WRITER/DIRECTOR: Natalie Cubides-Brady
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Hannah Bush Bailey
  • PRODUCER: Jacob Swan Hyam
  • EDITOR: Ona Bartroli
  • SOUND DESIGNER: Ben Goodall
  • COMPOSER: Athena Varosio
  • SCRIPT EDITOR: Alfie Spencer
  • COLOURIST: Jax Harney
  • ONLINE EDITOR: Maria Cecilia Tedemalm
  • NARRATOR: Aerynne Eastwood
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Hannah Bush Bailey
  • PRODUCER: Jacob Swan Hyam

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