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Ian Dodds(I)

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A man’s story. A people’s plight. A disputed history. Where does memory end and history begin? In 1939, Antonio de Ertze Garamendi was a young sailor from the Basque Country caught up in the Spanish Civil War. The Basques were persecuted when Franco’s forces triumphed. The deposed Republican Government had concealed a fortune in Spanish treasure to keep it from Franco. When they were defeated orders were sent that a ship should collect the hidden treasure and take it to Mexico to support the fleeing refugees. But when the treasure reached Mexico almost all of it went missing. Antonio Ertze was First Engineer on that ship. Now 94-years-old, Antonio’s tales of his flight entwine themselves with the 20th century history of the Basque people and of the Spanish Civil War. But there are contradictions in Antonio’s story and some will say that not all of it is wholly true. How did they escape Franco’s Navy? How did they get the treasure into Mexico? What happened to the fortune? Yet Antonio has meticulous notes and records of the names and dates involved and says: “I have my truth, others have theirs. If we all told the same stories we would be nothing more than canaries.” Shot on a return visit to the Basque Country, The Old Man and the Whale sets Antonio’s story to images of the textures, colours and landscapes of the home of one of Europe’s oldest people which asks us to explore the difference between memory and history.
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Ian Dodds is known for Leila (2003), The Ticking Man (2003) and To harama (1994).
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Leila
Short
  • Director
  • 2003
The Ticking Man (2003)
The Ticking Man
5.3
  • Cinematographer
  • 2003
To harama (1994)
To harama
6.2
  • Cinematographer
  • 1994
Maureen Beattie in The List (2014)
The List
  • Cinematographer
  • 2014

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Cinematographer

  • Sound for the Future (2020)
    Sound for the Future
    • Cinematographer
    • 2020
  • Hopscotch
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Ian Dodds, Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Skye Reynolds, and Roxana Vilk in I Just Disappeared Into You (2017)
    I Just Disappeared Into You
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Ghazi Hussein in I Came from the Unknown to Sing (2015)
    I Came from the Unknown to Sing
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Maureen Beattie in The List (2014)
    The List
    • director of photography
    • 2014
  • Your Attention Please: Scars (2013)
    Your Attention Please: Scars
    • Cinematographer
    • 2013
  • Dummy Jim (2013)
    Dummy Jim
    • Cinematographer
    • 2013
  • Finding Josephine
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Yehia Jaber in Yehia Jaber (2012)
    Artscape: Poets of Protest
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • Ian Dodds, Nick Wright, and Paul C. Ryan in The Red Army (2011)
    The Red Army
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • A Lesson in Death
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Movie
    • 2011
  • Where Buildings Sing
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • The Right to Privacy
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2010
  • Kuba Chewba (2009)
    Kuba Chewba
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2009
  • Freeze
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2009

Camera and Electrical Department

  • Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, and John Keenan in Nae Pasaran (2018)
    Nae Pasaran
    • camera operator
    • 2018
  • Big Gold Dream (2015)
    Big Gold Dream
    • additional camera
    • 2015
  • Deann Borshay, Angela Davis, Peter Dinklage, Dr. Riyadh, Bonita Dearmond, and Mohamed Bangura in P.O.V. (1988)
    P.O.V.
    • camera operator
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd in God on Trial (2008)
    God on Trial
    • camera operator
    • TV Movie
    • 2008
  • Sweetie
    • camera operator
    • Short
    • 2005
  • Altered Ego
    • sparks
    • Short
    • 1994
  • Returning Dreams
    • assistant camera
    • Short
    • 1990

Director

  • Leila
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2003

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