Breton Film: Celtic Arts, Clarsach Artistry

Folk Film Gathering : Screening of Chanson d'Armor

Chanson d'Armor

Edinburgh Filmhouse
Thursday 4th May
5.45pm

Jean Epstein  |  1934  |  Brittany  |  PG

This is the opportunity to watch a historic Breton film, with the added attraction of a live clarsach recital:-

In 1935, the Scottish composer and clarsach player Heloise Russell-Ferguson traveled to Brittany to perform a set of Gaelic songs at this film’s premiere – the first Breton language film. Based on a Breton folk tale, Chanson is a lyrical and mythic portrayal of forbidden love within a fishing community. Join a recreation of the event, with Scots Trad Awards Instrumentalist of the Year winner Rachel Newton, in celebration of one of Scotland’s most significant and unique female composers.

Jean Epstein (Wikipedia)

Followed by a "Question and Answer" session with Rachel and Edinburgh University’s Dr Stuart Eydmann on the significance of Russell-Ferguson’s contribution to Scotland’s musical culture, and womens’ experience in the Scottish traditional arts today.

The Real Deal: the late Christopher Hogwood's Film about Barenreiter Urtext

Music students often ask for Urtext editions - they're generally considered the best editions, with the most authentic reading of the musical text.  Did you know the late Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014) recorded a film about Barenreiter Urtext?  It's still on the Barenreiter website, and lasts less than 18 minutes.  You might like to see his insights into what's special about Urtext.

View the film on the Barenreiter website.

Paris Opera Launches New Platform for Film and Digital Media Productions

Benjamin Millepied

The Paris Opera is opening a virtual third stage, called 3e Scène, which will present works of various media. The venture, choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s brainchild, will be unrelated to specific opera or ballet productions.

Its debut will feature eighteen films directed by filmmakers including Rebecca Zlotowski, photographers Denis Darzacq, and Alex Prager, animator Glen Keane, and artist Julien Prévieux. The aim is to present thirty new works each season, said Millepied, while also encompassing installations, readings, and other events.

Ways to Do Opera and Write Plays? Guardian Culture Professionals Address the Issues

The Guardian Culture Professionals Network is a great blog to follow - there's always good material there.  This week:-

• "There is no Traditional Way of Doing Opera", says English Touring Opera's chief. 
• And for the theatrically-minded, "Playwrights in Search of Characters"

These are just two of the subjects raised - there's also tech talk about 3D printers, virtual reality in film, and more.  Take a look!

Spotted on Twitter - Learn to Manage a VFX Film Project in Dublin this July

Learn how to manage a VFX project at VFX: Script to Screen

"Producers and directors, want to gain the skills you need to produce and manage a VFX project from development to post-production?

"Screen Training Ireland and the Irish Film Board’s VFX: Script to Screen is now accepting applications for its 2014 edition."

Full details here:-  Creative Europe Media

Scotsman Newspaper: Gibbon's Sunset Song finally set for Big Screen

We read about this in The Scotsman:-

Gibbon’s Sunset Song finally set for big screen

 Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel is famed as one of Scotland's classic novels of the 20th century.  This film adaptation is therefore of considerable importance.

In the Whittaker Library, we have the book in its original trilogy, A Scots Quair, and Alastair Cording's 1993 dramatic adaptation.  See details HERE.

Music Clout opportunity for Composers - Songs needed for Drama Film

 LAST CALL! Are you a composer ?

This opportunity was tweeted by Music Clout today.  Further details on Music Clout website - click here.  Deadline 29 January 2014. 

Did you see the film, 'The Quartet'? Now read a blog by a piper!

Blogpipe

http://blogpipe-pipesdrums.com/

 

 

Blogpipe is a blog by piper Andrew Berthoff.  His latest posting is a reflection on the theme of the recent film, The Quartet (starring Maggie Smith) - but his musings have an interesting twist: Andrew blogs about pipers.

 

• Blogpipe homepage
• Retirement Hame - a reflection by Andrew Berthoff.

 

 

 

Learning On Screen Awards 2014

Learning On Screen Awards 2014
 
From the BUFVC website:-

"The Learning on Screen Awards are the only UK awards celebrating and rewarding excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research.

The Awards are open to broadcasters, production companies, education institutions, museums, publishers, charities, libraries, students and any other organisation or individual producing educational media.

Entries can be made into a variety of categories, including broadcast programmes, non-broadcast delivery, multimedia content and student productions. This year the award categories have been revised and updated to reflect the growing innovations in delivery methods and production... (Read on) 

The BUFVC is the British Universities Film and Video Council.

Combining Film, Theatre, Victorian Gothic at Glasgow's Tramway

Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner Reconstructed by Untitled Projects 

Bright made an incomplete staging of Victorian poet and novelist James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner - a weird, strangely compelling Gothic novel.

The Tramway offers a mixing-together of Bright's work filmed, and new film material.  Details here ...

Last-minute reminder - short film competition

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland film students already know about DepicT

Can you do it in 90 seconds?

Watershed's super-short filmmaking competition as part of Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival

Take a look here:- http://www.depict.org/competition/ 

Hurry - competition closes tomorrow!   Good luck to our entrants.

Stravinsky and Film - a blogpost you might like

Bibliolore is a musicology blog, from RILM (the music abstract and indexing people).

Today's post on Stravinsky and Film is excellent. Do visit it!

Get Creative - a BUFVC film course

Get Creative

Raising awareness of moving image & sound content in your institution

Friday 7 December 2012, 10am – 3pm
The Geological Society, Piccadilly, London

 

As advertised on the BUFVC (British Universities Film and Video Council ... 

 

• Do you promote the use of moving image and sound within your institution?
• Do you find it difficult to engage students and lecturers to use audiovisual content?
• Are your students concerned about how to reference audiovisual content in their work?

http://bufvc.ac.uk/events/getcreative