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in music/films
the music and sound function on
an equal level to the film,
as music and theatre work
on an overall basis of equality
in an opera

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Diversions: 1. Machines  2. Cityzens  3. River
Machines/Start            orchestra and digital film
Edge of Chaos           wind band and digital film
Fugue XXII - Worthing version   
​                                    wind band and digital film
Victoria Tenebrae   wind quintet and digital film                    

Music/films
To arrange screenings: ocatilloartsgroup@yahoo.com 

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                                            Oserake and The River That Walks
                                                                               Film and music
                                                                           Robert Robertson

​'Absorbing art-piece that concentrates on smoky urban and fluvial   snowscapes in an endless parade of beautiful textures, forms and abstract patterns.’
                                               Wally Hammond, 
Time Out, 2003.​

 ‘Oserake’ is the First Nation name for the winter quarters which were set up by the river, the origin of the city of  
 Montreal.

 This music/film shows what happens to Montreal in winter, when the wilderness takes over.
 Overwhelming forces try to return the modern city to the time before
 today’s streets and blocks existed, and phantoms invade the empty white streets.
 Massive snowdrifts, huge icicles and icefalls appear.

 Everything is transformed beneath layers of snow,
 and we glimpse what was seen by those who founded the original settlement,
 by this great river they called ‘the river that walks’, swept with ice.


 The music is scored for a large ensemble of cellos and violas.
 The second half is scored for six church organs.
 
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East Side Morning

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                                       East Side Morning ​ from Invisible City
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                                                                                  Psychic Neon
                                                                                

                                                                                  Music and film
                                                                             Robert Robertson


                                              


    
   

Invisible City shows what has become invisible in the
cities where citizens are caught up in daily cares and concerns.
Mostly filmed in Manhattan, scenes filmed in other cities
(Moscow, St Petersburg, Athens) appear like transient memories,
part of a continuous absorption in movement, music and light.

Knock hard

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                                                                           Doors of the Spirits
                                                                                                   Film
                                                                                Robert Robertson 








                                        A procession of ancient and weathered doors
                                                          from the oldest district in Havana
                   is counterpointed by the pathos of an old revolutionary song
                                                                                by Carlos Puebla.                                                                                                                        

http://caribbeanantillean.weebly.com

'... a magic seat away on a safe train'

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                                                                                            I'm Back
                                                                                                   Film
                                                                                Robert Robertson

    
     A selection of poems by Spike Hawkins, read by him, are set to film.
                                              The rhythmic use of still images heighten

                                   the musical and rhythmic qualities in the poems,
                                                and evoke the type of fleeting moments
                           during which a poem surfaces in the mind of the poet. 

 The Poet's Position

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                                                                           Assault on Time 1
                                                                           Assault on Time 2

                                                                                                   Film
                                                                              Robert Robertson

                             Spike Hawkins reads his own selection of his poems
                                    counterpointed by unexpected everyday sounds,
                          including hammerings, a car alarm and distant thunder.
                           In his reading of these poems, mostly of the everyday,
                                                   there is a sense of language in fusion,
                                                        continually changing and evolving.

   
 * from 250 Grams of Poetry, published by Harwood (2001), in the Poets’ Voices text and CD series.  

 'with how little so much has arisen'

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                                                                                 Trace Elements
                                                                                                   Film
                                                                                Robert Robertson
              
                A two-part portrait in film of the artist, filmmaker and musician
                                               Dennis Dracup, in the form of a dialogue.
                        The camera follows the flow of ideas through the objects
   in and around his laboratory, in sonic work and in various visual media.

                                

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