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Released
1987 · FILM

Ostia

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Written by
Runtime
26 min
Drama

Synopsis

Ostia is a short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art. It reimagines the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, setting the story in London and casting Derek Jarman in the role of Pasolini. The film includes a dream sequence, accompanied by excerpts from Pasolini’s poetry, which are read by Jarman.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Julian ColeShot by Curtis RadclyffeScored by John EacottDesigned by Derek Brown

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