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WHAT TIME IS DEATH?

By Paul DUANE

1185 FILMS LTD - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2018

The JAMs are back but they don’t make records any more.
Now they make pyramids out of dead people.

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Dublin IFF 2019

Documentary

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Paul DUANE
- Producer(s)
- Nick FRANCO (1185 FILMS LTD), Paul DUANE (Screenworks (Ireland))
- Synopsis
- In 2017 Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence - but they were no longer a pop group. They were now undertakers, planning to build a monument, the People's Pyramid, out of 34,952 bricks made from the remains of dead people.
  
  The pair are notoriously publicity shy, and this is the first documentary they have taken part in since 1995.
  It was around this time that they embarked on a 23-year moratorium, signed on a contract written on the side of a hire car & pushed off a cliff at Cape Wrath, Scotland, preventing them from working together or speaking about their burning of a million quid at the Isle of Jura in 1992.
  
  That silence ended in 2016 with an event called Welcome To The Dark Ages, a three-day event in Liverpool for 400 paying participants, including director Paul Duane. It was there that they launched their new incarnation, as Undertakers To The Underworld & custodians of the People's Pyramid, a visionary scheme that will take, they estimate, three hundred years to complete.
  
  Their partners in this venture – Claire & Rupert Callender of The Green Funeral Company, war photographer Paul Conroy, roadie & auteur director of the film The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, Gimpo, conceptual architect & kimchi chef Paul Sullivan – are just some of the fascinating cast of characters in this rollercoaster ride of a film.

WHAT TIME IS DEATH?

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