The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes on his father, Pharaoh, and leads a radical campaign to liberate the people of Dreamland.
Direction
Woolcock's fearless collision of sacred and profane.
Production
Margate's decaying beauty becomes biblical wasteland.
Director
Penny Woolcock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Woolcock shot in Margate during its pre-gentrification nadir, capturing a real England being erased by coastal redevelopment.
The 'Promised Lands' estate was real—Woolcock cast actual residents, blurring documentary and prophecy until the final plague sequence.
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