NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
co-commission between Opera North
and the Royal Shakespeare Company
film maker: Pippa Nissen
music and curator: Gavin Bryars
music director: James Holmes
director or photography: Pete Bateson
film assistants: Kate Moross, Dan Price
The film accompanied music by Gavin Bryars,
based on Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Themes within the sonnets became the inspiration for the content and quality of the films. Three different settings; either a still life (flowers, a meal set for two) light (candles, burning, lightbulbs), or an exterior street were used. These were filmed in 16mm film, and additionally using an industrial camera at 500 frames a second.
The resulting films was painstakingly slow; feeling as if a moment was suspended. The themes explored revolved around finding the beautiful within things that are transitory; such as smoke from a candle, or rubbish caught in barbed wire blowing in the wind. Eleven episodes completed the film, each using a different metaphor for the content of the sonnets.
and the Royal Shakespeare Company
film maker: Pippa Nissen
music and curator: Gavin Bryars
music director: James Holmes
director or photography: Pete Bateson
film assistants: Kate Moross, Dan Price
The film accompanied music by Gavin Bryars,
based on Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Themes within the sonnets became the inspiration for the content and quality of the films. Three different settings; either a still life (flowers, a meal set for two) light (candles, burning, lightbulbs), or an exterior street were used. These were filmed in 16mm film, and additionally using an industrial camera at 500 frames a second.
The resulting films was painstakingly slow; feeling as if a moment was suspended. The themes explored revolved around finding the beautiful within things that are transitory; such as smoke from a candle, or rubbish caught in barbed wire blowing in the wind. Eleven episodes completed the film, each using a different metaphor for the content of the sonnets.