The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

2009 56min

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

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Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

Released
January 1, 2009
Runtime
56min
Director
Anja KirschnerDavid Panos
Genre
Drama
Language
English
Production
Chisenhale Gallery London, CCA Glasgow, The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council of England, The Scottish Arts Council
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