“Mute” – written and directed by Mark Donne
Segment piece from wider film installation “Listening With Frontiersman” commissioned by Estuary Festival.
Directors note: The piece looks slightly “warped” on a flat screen as it was shot anamorphically and projected in vast scale with an anamorphic projector (to the curve of the ancient Fort wall) for impact.
‘Sound On’ to listen to the ambient sounds of the estuary and Cira’s movement.
Written and Directed: Mark Donne
DOP: Mark Nutkins
Samples: Thom Yorke
Sound Recordist & Design: Jim Carey Connell/Inventive Audio
Editor: Joe Morris
Dancer: Cira Robinson
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Pour nos amis francophone, voici un cours de danse classique à domicile par la danseuse française de Ballet Black, Marie-Astrid Mence!
For our French and French-speaking friends: a ballet class from French Ballet Black dancer, Marie-Astrid Mence.
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