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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 52 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 52 m

Summary The Miners' Hymns celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala in D...

Directed By: Bill Morrison

Written By: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Bill Morrison

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 52 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 52 m

The Miners' Hymns

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary The Miners' Hymns celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala in D...

Directed By: Bill Morrison

Written By: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Bill Morrison

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
76
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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91
Feb 8, 2012
In keeping with Jóhann Jóhannsson's score - alternately ominous, triumphant, and elegiac - The Miners' Hymns plays on the broader emotions of the subject. The film is all about the mysterious world down below, how camaraderie turned to conflict, and the nagging feeling of loss.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 10, 2012
Morrison sometimes slows down imagery to a hypnotic, frame-by-frame trance-like state; one can imagine townsfolk scrutinizing the faces of long-dead relatives magically raised.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 7, 2012
It speaks eloquently about the disappearance of most any indigenous working-class culture.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 6, 2012
A study of the this former mining region in both its de-industralized present and its past state as an active coalfield, The Miners' Hymns arranges its two parts as a set of binary oppositions.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 7, 2012
An elegant, elegiac found-footage work from Bill Morrison, best known for his silent-film reverie "Decasia."
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 7, 2012
Miners' is tiresome and scattershot.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Forma
Release Date Feb 10, 2012
Duration 52 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://billmorrisonfilm.com/feature-length-films/the-miners-hymns/1
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Awards

Sheffield International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination

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