Project Detail

Song of the Nobird

Synopsis

Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 3 mins 16 secs
Format: Various
Director: Stuart Pound
Editor: Stuart Pound
Screenwriter: Rosemary Norman
Principal cast: Rosemary Norman
Text and Voice: Rosemary Norman

Genre

Experimental Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stuart Pound & Rosemary Norman

rosenorm@hotmail.co.uk stuartpound@stuartpound.plus.com

Sales Company

Stuart Pound & Rosemary Norman

rosenorm@hotmail.co.uk stuartpound@stuartpound.plus.com

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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.

Experimental Music Thriller

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Year: 2025

A private conversation is transformed into a soundscape where only the occasional word emerges with any clarity. Moiré patterns move like human shapes, meet then separate into the darkness.

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