Dark summer

  • 72'
  • United Kingdom
  • 1993
For the background to his feature début, Charles Teton quotes the words of Martin Scorsese about John Cassavetes: 'When you say just pick up a camera and shoot a movie, you have to understand that means you're crazy. When you pick up that camera and look through it and start shooting, something happens like a drug and you've got to keep going and you start borrowing money, begging till you have your movie.' In 1987 Teton conceived Dark Summer and started, entirely independently, to make it. The film was produced, shot and edited in Liverpool, with an incredibly dedicated cast and crew.Dark Summer became a study of innocence and naïvety; a summer filled with struggle and success, love and death. The two protagonists, Jes and Abraham, personify many conceivable opposites, such as darkness and light, roughness and warmth.The raw city of Liverpool also plays a major role in this story filmed like a documentary.
  • 72'
  • United Kingdom
  • 1993
Director
Charles Teton
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 1994
Length
72'
Medium
35mm
Language
English
Producer
Charles Teton
Sales
Activate Productions
Screenplay
Derrin Schlesinger
Cinematography
Charles Teton
Editor
Charles Teton
Director
Charles Teton
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 1994
Length
72'
Medium
35mm
Language
English
Producer
Charles Teton
Sales
Activate Productions
Screenplay
Derrin Schlesinger
Cinematography
Charles Teton
Editor
Charles Teton