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.
Music/films
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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, 2002.
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, 2002.
‘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.
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.
East Side AM
Invisible City
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.
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
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
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'
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.
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
Assault on Time
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.
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'
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.
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.
