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• Piercing Brightness (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (13/01/2014) from £19.19   |  Saving you £3.80 (19.80%)   |  RRP £22.99

  PIERCING BRIGHTNESS is the debut feature film directed by acclaimed visual artist Shezad Dawood scripted by cult novelist Kirk Lake with an original score by Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple (Japan) and featuring music by Alexander Tucker. Two youths land in a spaceship outside Preston. Their mission: to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the ‘Glorious 100’ sent to earth millennia ago in human form to study and observe the development of another race. After making contact with one of the 100 now a Pakistani shopkeeper (Bhasker Patel) they discover that many of their kind have become corrupted forgetting their original purpose and slowly becoming influenced by and in turn influencing their adopted home... Inspired by Lancashire having the highest rate of UFO sightings in the UK as well as hosting one of the earliest splinter Mormon communities in the world the film uses Preston and its inhabitants as a springboard to investigate religious racial and class- based social hierarchies.

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  Preston is a hot spot for UFO sightings and also has the UK's fastest-growing Chinese population. This was the starting point for artist Shezad Dawood film - a woozy socially-conscious science fiction movie. Avoiding Northern clichés Piercing Brightness is a tale of alien emissaries and interracial love that has a real sense of place with wig-out moments provided by Acid Mothers Temple and a climax on the roof of the brutalist Preston Bus Station.