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Typist Artist Pirate King (film)
In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan), a non-conformist, forgotten artist persuades her psychiatric nurse Sandra (Kelly Macdonald) to take her on a road trip back to where her story began – but with so many deviations into the past along the way, will they ever make it
With natural sympathy and warmth, film-maker Carol Morley has created this likeable, generous, imaginative response to the work of this neglected Sunderland-born artist. Amiss’s work is held in an archive at the Wellcome Collection in London, where Morley discovered the artist’s passport with its scribbled entry under Occupation: “Typist Artist Pirate King”
“it is tremendously shot by Agnès Godard and the compassion of the film is palpable.” **** The Guardian
Rated 12A | Running Time 1 hr 46 min | Screened in English with English Subtitles
With natural sympathy and warmth, film-maker Carol Morley has created this likeable, generous, imaginative response to the work of this neglected Sunderland-born artist. Amiss’s work is held in an archive at the Wellcome Collection in London, where Morley discovered the artist’s passport with its scribbled entry under Occupation: “Typist Artist Pirate King”
“it is tremendously shot by Agnès Godard and the compassion of the film is palpable.” **** The Guardian
Rated 12A | Running Time 1 hr 46 min | Screened in English with English Subtitles
Saturday 24 Feb 24
Universal Hall
The Park, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ
£5 Entry for All – prebook online or pay on the doorDoors 7pm fr a 7.30pm Start
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