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The Women Who Leapt Through Time: The Representation of Women in Sci-Fi Films

White Chamber

Paul RASCHID

UK2017 89min Asian Premiere

Synopsis

A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid room. A voice from the outside demands information, but she claims to have none. To gain the answers he seeks, her captor utilizes the gruesome functionality of the room as an instrument of torture.

Program Note

UK in the near future. As racism and economic crisis escalate, rebels strike and civil war rages. A woman who calls herself Ruth wakes up in a state of being locked in a white chamber. Soon the mysterious voice sound and urges her to tell the secret of the white chamber. But Ruth pleads, “I am just a worker doing odd jobs, and don’t know anything about the it,” then the voice begins to torture Ruth using all sorts of devices in the white chamber. It is very interesting that the imprisoner is asking the prisoner about the secret of the chamber. It may be that Ruth herself created the white chamber that would eventually tighten her, who was trapped without a hole to escape. And the audience slowly approaches the secret of this chamber Was Brexit an exit or an isolation to the chamber with only pain and death? White Camber depicts the dystopian future of Britain through settings evoking claustrophobia. The shaking face of Suer or McDonald, who seems cold and hard, but is immediately shaken by anxiety and fear, may be the face of Englishmen walking unstably the 21st century. (Jay SOHN)

Diretor

Paul RASCHID

Born in 1993, in London. Having grown up under the guidance of his producer father, Paul went on to complete a degree in English literature with film studies from King’s College London.
After writing and starring for Unhallowed Ground he debuted as a writer-director and starring with the film Servants’ Quarters (2016).

Credit

Producer
Jonnie Hurn, Neville Raschid
Screenplay
Paul Raschid
Cinematographer
Glen Warrillow
Editor
Alex Martin
Music
John Harle
Production Design
Lucy Gahagan
Sales
Aviary Films