Echoing the title of a definitive film in British cinema, A Matter of Life and Death captures an equally definitive reality of British society in the nineties: the scourge of AIDS that cost thousands of people their lives. What’s it like to live and die of a “big illness with a small name”?
A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death
Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Constantine Giannaris
- Script: Constantine Giannaris
- Music: John Eacott, Nicholas Bloomfield
- Actors: Adam Mars-Jones, Parimi, Greyum Pyper, Harry Easom, Martin Husk
- Production: Abseil Production, Fulcrum Productions Channel Four
- Color: Color, B&W
- Production Country: UK
- Production Year: 1991
- Duration: 13'
- Contact: C. Giannaris Films
Segment of Out on Tuesday, a series shot for Channel Four.
Constantine Giannaris
Filmography
1989 Jean Genet Is Dead (short)
1989 Disco’s Revenge (short, TV)
1990 Silences (short)
1990 Τrojans (short)
1991 A Matter of Life and Death (short, TV)
1991 Caught Looking (short)
1991 North of Vortex
1991 Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication) (short, TV)
1992 A Desperate Vitality: The Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini (short)
1995 A Place in the Sun
1995 3 Steps to Heaven
1998 From the Edge of the City
2001 One Day in August
2004 Visions of Europe: Room for All (short)
2005 Hostage
2008 Gender Pop
2011 Man at Sea
2015 Spring Awakening
1989 Disco’s Revenge (short, TV)
1990 Silences (short)
1990 Τrojans (short)
1991 A Matter of Life and Death (short, TV)
1991 Caught Looking (short)
1991 North of Vortex
1991 Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication) (short, TV)
1992 A Desperate Vitality: The Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini (short)
1995 A Place in the Sun
1995 3 Steps to Heaven
1998 From the Edge of the City
2001 One Day in August
2004 Visions of Europe: Room for All (short)
2005 Hostage
2008 Gender Pop
2011 Man at Sea
2015 Spring Awakening
