Most low budget film makers go digital, but by insisting on using only 35 mm stock as one of their (almost Dogme-95-style) self-imposed film-making disciplines, co-directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor lent their Civic Life Project series of shorts a uniquely cinematic sensiblity. With their new feature, Helen, about what happens when a child in care is asked to play the part of a murdered girl in a crime reconstruction, these same techniques are used to address issues of identity in ways that are disturbing, moving and recall some of my very favourite films. For an interview with Joe and Christine go to BBC Film Network.
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