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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 56-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Asylum
2000 0h 56m EN
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9.0
MASTERPIECE
★9.0TMDB · 1
DocumentaryDrama
Synopsis
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Asylum is a film very much derived from chaos, expressing implicitly the ideas conjured up by its title. A strange mix of both documentary and fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century. A virus has wiped out most of the culture of the twentieth century, leaving just fragments of a project called 'The Perimeter Fence' to be pieced together. These fragments make up a documentary about an exiled group of disparate yet similar minds.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Michael Moorcock
Ed Dorn
James Sallis
Marina Warner
Françoise Lacroix
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Iain Sinclair
- Writers
- Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Iain Sinclair directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 56-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 226 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Michael Moorcock and Ed Dorn and James Sallis carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0275941 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 56 min · 0h 56m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
- IMDB
- Asylum (2000)
Also by
Iain Sinclair
Key crew
- ProducerKeith Griffiths
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2000-09-11
