Seven Songs for a Long Life
The intimate story behind our changing relationship with death. A terminal diagnosis used to mean death within months. Modern medicine allows us to live on for years. Sometimes. How do we deal with this increased uncertainty? Director Amy Hardie (The Edge of Dreaming) spent three years in Scotland’s largest hospice where the patients wanted to sing to her. The result is a passionate and touching observational film where song expresses the patients’ changing relationship with their own bodies and each other, their humour, their courage and their confrontation with their own mortality. With a score by Mark Orton,(composer Nebraska)
- Festival
- Dungarvan 2016
- Title
- Seven Songs for a Long Life
- Entry Category
- Factual Single
- Produced By
- Scottish Documentary Institute / Amy Hardie
- Producer
- Sonja Henrici
- Directed By
- Amy Hardie
- Broadcaster
- BBC