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Life Without Death (2000)
Frank Cole
25 September to 4 October 2015
The film is 86 minutes. Entrance is free.
Evening previews screenings are Friday 25 September and Thursday 1 October: 6pm, 7.30pm
During regular opening hours screenings begin at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm
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‘Life Without Death’ is a minimalist, death-obsessed first-person account of Frank Cole’s record-breaking solo trek across the Sahara in 1990.
Following the death of his grandfather, he set out to confront his own mortality by embarking, Bolex movie camera in hand, on a 7,000-kilometre crossing of the African desert on camel, from Mauritania to Sudan.
The self-shot, diaristic feature-length film, which took Cole a decade to edit, chronicles the remarkably arduous journey, the toll it takes on his body, and the human dangers — civil wars, suspicious authorities, marauders — he encounters along the way.
The result is a meditative, obsessive work of intense power and poetry.
Cole was murdered when he was attempting another Sahara crossing a decade later in October 2000.
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