TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

Year: 2009
Reference: F226747
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 2009
Reference: F226747
Media type: Moving image

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Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Performance
Duration: 01:15:05
Production company: Infinity Limited
Credits: Composed: Lucien Johnson
Performed: The Village of Idiots
Inspired by: Edgar Allen Poe
Voice: Chris Palmer
Performers: Patrick Bleakley
Performers: Deane Hunter
Performers: Anthony Donaldson
Performers: Amanda Maclean
Performers: Toby Laing
Performers: Joe Linsdsay
Performers: Lucien Johnson
Director: Geoff Murphy
Produced: Geoff Murphy
Produced: Anthony Donaldson
Co-Producer: Howard Taylor
3D Animation: Geoff Murphy
Cameramen: Hepi Mita (Ngāti Pikiao; Ngāi Te Rangi; Ngāti Whakahemo)
Cameramen: Miles Murphy
Cameramen: Geoff Murphy
Cameramen: Paul Murphy
Cameramen: Phil Burchell
Studio Sound: Andrew Downes
Studio Sound: Mike Gibson
Post-production Sound: Matt Aickin
Post-production Sound: Lucien Johnson

Subtitled “A Suite Of Twelve Pieces Of Music”. A musical stage performance - with some visual effects added in post-production - inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. (The film begins with the drums replicating a beating heart). Chris Palmer gives voice to select passages from the short stories while The Village Of The Idiots conjure up suitably eerie soundscapes. The film begins and ends with director Geoff Murphy and composer Lucien Johnson talking at Poe’s graveside in Baltimore, USA. Songs are interspersed with band members contributing their thoughts on Poe; drummer and bandleader Anthony Donaldson talks from his isolated home on Wellington’s South Coast.