Short film

The Call of Mist
1998 · 10 min
A haunting, contemplative short that unfolds like a dream, asking you to sit with its eerie images and ideas long after it ends.
- Directed by
- John Akomfrah
- Overview
- A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by BBC TV.
- How it feels
- Eerie, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, death, identity, isolation
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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