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The Airport

2016 · 53 min

A slow, contemplative gallery piece that drifts through ruins and memory, asking patience and rewarding it with quiet unease.

Directed by: John Akomfrah

Overview: The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes of Southern Greece and an abandoned airfield near Athens, recalls the work of two filmmaking greats: Stanley Kubrick and Theo Angelopolous.

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Directed by: John Akomfrah

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
isolation
class
politics
grief
Places: countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Directed by: John Akomfrah
Runtime: 53 min

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