OF TIME AND THE CITY

Of Time and the City is a visual poem by the great British auteur Terence Davies which draws on the first 28 years of the director's life - his life in Liverpool until he left in 1973. «Cut it as if it were fiction», Davies says with «images which speak» and a layered sound track of popular and classical music, voices, radio clips and a powerful, poignant voiceover by the director himself. Of Time and the City is a very personal portrait of the impoverished town, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs, the home of the writer's birth, where youth and inspiration weave his own story into the recent history of Liverpool with fascinating found footage and counterpointed sound.