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Père Lachaise

:: image processing :: Stuart Pound

Synopsis

The spoken text of Père Lachaise is a poem about scattering ashes, illicitly, in the famous Paris cemetery. On the screen, the central image is the face of the dead woman, photographed in ATS uniform in black and white. The face is almost always partly obscured by flames. But there is humour in the text, and the brilliant colours of the flames, and the fairground music, suggest life and energy.

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Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 2 mins 16 secs
Format: 1080p HD
Director: Stuart Pound
Editor: Stuart Pound
Screenwriter: Rosemary Norman
Composer: Andrew Harvey
voice & text: Rosemary Norman

Genre

Experimental Literary Adaption Music Dance

Production Status

Complete

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1985 was a difficult year for me. My mother had died, an attempted love affair went badly wrong, I hadn't made a film for five years. I bought a video camera and went to Cuba for three weeks. Music and memory play important parts. I first heard this particular music in Louis Malle's LES AMANTS (1958) when I was a teenager.

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