Screening (Online) from: Saturday, 21/11/2020 | 20:00

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Roz Mortimer, 89′, UK 2019

Original version with English subtitles

THE DEATHLESS WOMAN is a ghost story for the 21st Century. This urgent and magical hybrid documentary fluidly interweaves fantastical re-imaginings of buried secrets with a ghostly narration and direct to camera testimonies from survivors and witnesses of historic and contemporary crimes against the Roma in Poland and Hungary.

A Roma woman buried alive in a forest in Poland during WWII returns to haunt us, uncovering a history of atrocities against the Roma in Europe. She is the Deathless Woman. Motivated by rage, she rises from her grave to draw our attention to the persecution of the Roma people from the 1940s to the neo-Nazi hate crimes of the present day.

Director
Roz Mortimer

Script
Roz Mortimer

Cinematography
Peter Emery

Editing
Daniel Goddard

Sound
Chu-Li Shewring

Composer
Stefan Smith

Script editor
Margaret Glover

Casting Director
Lucy Casson

Production designer
Roz Mortimer

Cast
Iveta Kokyová, Loren O’Dair, Oliver Malik

Production
Roz Mortimer

Supported by
Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Arts Council England, The Elephant Trust, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster

Film team:

• Roz Mortimer
  Roz Mortimer is an artist, writer and independent filmmaker who lives and works in London. She teaches alternative documentary practice at universities in the UK and USA and is currently Senior Lecturer in Film at University for the Creative Arts. Roz’s genre-breaking films blur the boundaries between staged theatre and documentary whilst challenging our social ...