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Paradise Lost: History in the Un-Making

Paradise Lost: History in the Un-Making

2021 84min EN

When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic England as an exemplar of postwar design, the story of John Madin's concrete colossus and the fight to save it is a curious one. In this psychogeographic detective story, Howlett weaves together archive footage with on-the-ground explorations in an attempt to figure out why we lost Paradise and how it might be regained.

director: Andy Howlett

cast: James Harris, Andy Howlett

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James Harris

James Harris

John Madin

Andy Howlett

Andy Howlett

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