Civic Life: Who Killed Brown Owl

Desperate Optimists

IndieLisboa 2009 •

Ireland, United Kingdom, Fiction, 2004, 9′

It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence.