Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A (2002 film)


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The result was   redirect to Darren Almond. T. Canens (talk) 05:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

A (2002 film)

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I can't find significant coverage for this film. Joe Chill (talk) 00:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  -- Joe Chill (talk) 00:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)




 * Redirect to the director? With repects to the documentary filmmakers, what the heck were they thinking???   The title makes any serious search for sources all but impossible.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 05:47, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * If it is so hard to find sources due to it's title, how can you be certain that there arnt any??--Coin945 (talk) 05:53, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not at all certain... and was remarking upon the huge number of false positives caused by their choice of name. If sources are found, I'd gladly reconsider my redirect. Gladly.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 21:52, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The director doesn't have an article. The link for the director goes to an artist. Joe Chill (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Had that thought myself... but English artist Darren Almond "works in a variety of media, most notably photography and film"... so directing a minor documentary 8 years ago fits his profile. Further, the film was produced by Public Art Development Trust and distributed by Royal National Theatre... entities with whom photography and film "artist" Darren Almond has a relationship. So I think driecting back to the director makes a certain sense.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 21:52, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

. . . .experimental films like Darren Almond’s gorgeous and unsettling “A,” shot along the crystalline coast of Antarctica. The film came about when Mission Antarctica invited Almond on their expedition to clear ecological waste from Antarctica's shores in early 2002. He discovered a “landscape simply made up of air, liquid and gas in different states.” His camera lingers over menacing icebergs, skimming their curves like the backs of rounded knees. After a while, it becomes difficult to distinguish sea from sky. Further Googling of the search string <"Darren Almond" Antarctica> turns up quite a large number of references to this work, although not many of them are WP:RS. (Here is a brief mention in The Age, for example.) Here is a more substantial review in The Independent but unfortunately so far I have found only this teaser from a pay site. --Arxiloxos (talk) 06:33, 5 June 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. This may help: after a lot of digging I dug up this description (from an art magazine called The Blowup) of Almond's work A, which is consistent with information in Almond's biography about his voyages to Antarctica:
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Redirect per MQS. That way the history is available if someone can find the sources to write the article but we don't keep a poorly sourced article of dubious notability sitting indefinitely.  Eluchil404 (talk) 05:24, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to director, perhaps with a mention of the film on his page. Fletch the Mighty (talk) 00:58, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.