The Journey Is the Destination
Manchester Film Festival Release Date:
Friday 3rd March 2017
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Starring:
Kelly Macdonald, Ella Purnell, Maria Bello, Ben Schnetzer, Sam Hazeldine and Abby Quinn
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Directed By:
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Written By:
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Produced By:
Richard Arlook, Kathy Eldon, Adam Friedlander, Trevor Hall, Martin Katz and Kweku Mandela
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Genres:
Drama
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Language:
English
Synopsis
Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, which had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop culture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held his art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfulness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young could have this kind of artistic depth and insight.