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RSA Screens - Dreams of a Life

Monday, December 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

RSA Screens - Dreams of a Life

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Join us for a preview screening of Carol Morley's documentary film, Dreams of a Life. The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with Carol Morley.

Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years and newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce’s life - not even a photograph.

Who was Joyce Vincent? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age – the so-called age of communication? Joyce may have died in tragic isolation, but Carol Morley was not going to let her be forgotten. She discovers a range of people that once knew Joyce who help to piece together a multilayered portrait and an insight into the world she inhabited.

Dreams of a Life is about a life lived in modern times. It is a film about Joyce Vincent and a film about ourselves; about how much and yet how little we may ever know each other.

Dreams of a Life
premiered at the 2011 BFI London Film Festival and opens in the UK on 16 December.

 

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Durham House Street entrance
WC2N 6EZ London
United Kingdom

Monday, December 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM (GMT)


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