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Potters Field

Have you ever thought about what happens to homeless people when they die? Did you ever wonder what happens with body parts after they have been amputated? What happens to the bodies that have been donated to science after their usefulness has been had? What about the baby, whose mother is so distraught after having given birth to a still born child that while filling out paperwork through her tears, checks the little box requesting a city burial? They all end up in Potters Field.

  • Patricia Cunliffe
    Director
    A Language of Passion/Un Lenguage de Pasion, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley & thePolitics of Race, Rhiannon's Bridge
  • Patricia Cunliffe
    Producer
    A Language of Passion/Un Lenguage de Pasion, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley & thePolitics of Race, Rhiannon's Bridge
  • Dom Aiken
    Producer
  • Dom Aiken
    Research
  • Patricia Cunliffe
    Archival Research
  • Dom Aiken
    Composer
  • Patricia Cunliffe
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Noir, experimental, archival, abstract, music, documentary
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 13, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No

  • United States
Director Biography - Patricia Cunliffe

Patricia is an integrated producer of various mediums - photo, video & copy. She is a writer, producer, director, cinematographer and editor; best known for her bilingual documentary feature about Latino artists in Los Angeles, A Language of Passion. Patricia production managed the PBS documentary, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race and was associate producer of Tom Bradley’s Impossible Dream for LAUSD. Her credits range from producing/directing art films Rhiannon’s Bridge, Musings and Potters Field, video-journalism Are We Criminals?, field producer on Coded Stories, production accountant on Henry Jaglom’s Just 45 Minutes from Broadway, to licensing on Generation Zapped. She penned an exclusive feature on the legendary filmmaker Kenneth Anger for Amass Magazine and is a frequent contributor to the Pasadena Weekly. Patricia is currently in post-production on her documentary about the Pueblo Revolt. She is also an abstract painter with an upcoming show in March 2018.

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Director Statement

Dom Aiken first composed the music for Potters Field, which was inspired by his extensive research on the subject. I didn't come on till later, to create the visual element. We are both pleased to make note of a subject that does not usually occur to us during our everyday lives