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Dark Room is complete

The follow-up short film by award-winning director Rob Brown has finished shooting and is now in Post-Production.

1985 Belfast. After hearing an argument in the distance, the photographer discovers a heated dispute between two men escalating into sectarian violence. Should she try to step in and intervene or stand back and take the picture for the world to see? Shot on super 16mm, the film is part funded by DfES Media Box and explores the boundaries between intervention and fate in a way that is visual and emotional, drawing parallels and influence from still photographic images which communicate stories everyday without dialogue. Dark Room subverts the conventional narrative traditions of conveying character and emotion though dialogue rather than visual storytelling. The film does not have a judgmental message for the audience. Instead the story is told with only one line of dialogue. In this way, the film challenges and empowers the audience allowing them to determine their own opinion on the war photographer's dilemma and her actions.