‘Burnt Milk:’ Criterion Channel Acquires Venice Biennale Film By Joseph Douglas Elmhirst
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Burnt Milk, a film project from British-Jamaican filmmaker Joseph Douglas Elmhirst, has been acquired by the Criterion Channel.
The film is available to watch on the streamer starting today. Running just over nine minutes, Burnt Milk was commissioned by the British Pavilion for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, marking the first time a film was included as part of the Pavilion’s official offerings.
The film was shot on rich 16mm Kodak and is shaped around a lyrical monologue voiced by Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black), but attributed to the fictional Una, played by first-time actor Clover Webb, who we see on-screen.
She’s an older Jamaican woman in London, a member of the Windrush generation, and her life is beset by the crippling isolation of 1980’s England.
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