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NEWS Wednesday 15 May 2019
DAY 2

THE BUZZ
OF THE DAY SEE SAW WRAPS

EXCLUSIVE PRINCIPLE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ANDERSON ON AMMONITE

EXPLORES

LINKS

BETWEEN

BODY AND

Laurie BRAIN See Saw’s Ammonite © DR
© DR Anderson
EE-SAW Films, BBC Films and
HIRTY years after she In all three experiences, the viewer can fly people’s experiences.” the BFI, have wrapped
premiered her debut film — up to and around the moon, through Anderson and Huang are fluid about principle photography on the
Home of the Brave at Directors’ chalk drawings on multilayered how, when and where people will see the romantic drama Ammonite,
Fortnight, Laurie Anderson is blackboards and inside a virtual aircraft. works, although “rather than just putting S which stars Kate Winslet and
T back in Cannes with Go In all three presentations the viewer takes a headset on a chair, we prefer an Saoirse Ronan. Fiona Shaw, James
Where You Look: Falling Off Snow control using two virtual wrists/hands, installation”, she said. McArdle, Gemma Jones and Alec
Mountain, which comprises three VR which are used to swoop, soar and And they are discovering new ideas as Secareanu round out the cast.
installations created with Taiwanese artist interact with what appears in the scene at they show these works. “One of my Inspired by the life of Mary Anning, a
and filmmaker Hsin-Chien Huang. any given time. assistants in New York has a condition Victorian-era paleontologist, the film is
Anderson describes the three works — “The incredible thing about VR is that where he can’t open his hands and it’s not based on an original screenplay by
Aloft, Chalkroom and To The Moon — as even though you are getting a lot of the right time yet to have an operation. BAFTA-nominated writer Francis Lee
“three poetically linked and feedback from other senses, the eyes He was a musician and he had to stop who also directs.
complementary pieces”. They debut in rule,” Anderson told Cannes Market and now he’s a wonderful writer. He was The film is being co-financed by the BFI
Directors’ Fortnight today, until May 25. News. “Your feet tell you that you’re doing Aloft, in which, like the others, you (awarding National Lottery funding) and
The partnership between the two artists standing in a safe place, but your eyes say have virtual hands which you can see. BBC Films. See-Saw developed the
dates back to 1994 when Huang won a you’re falling.” And while he was using it, his hands drama with BBC Films and the BFI.
competition titled New Voices New The pieces were created as separate works opened — I just started crying and I took Set in 1800s England, the story follows
Visions, for which Anderson was judge. some two years ago and this is the first pictures. He didn’t realise what had Anning who works alone on the
She invited him to work with her on an time they’ve been shown together. “We happened so I showed him the pictures southern coastline. Her famed
interactive CD-ROM for her album didn’t have the foresight to create them as afterwards.” She added: “You know, we discoveries are behind her, as she
Puppet Motel, and since then, they have a trilogy, but they work very well together don’t know anything about the searches for common fossils to sell to
worked together several times. in the way you use your body,” she said. connection between the brain and the tourists to support herself and her ill
At the Cannes installation, at Le Suquet “But you don’t see any people, except for body. So this is a very exciting mother. When a wealthy visitor asks
des Art(iste)s, a public art space in the old a falling body in To The Moon, partly development for VR. With the next thing Mary to take care of his wife, she
town, the first door takes you To The because VR people look unpleasant. They we do we’re going to use that brain-body cannot afford to turn the offer down.
Moon, the second to the Chalkroom and look like they’re made of rubber. So this connection.” ✦ Julian Newby Although they at first clash, an intense
the third to Aloft. is all about your perception and not other bond develops, compelling the two
women to determine the true nature of
their relationship.
SONY PICTURES STRIKES MULTI-TERRITORY Lee said: “I first came across Mary
Anning when I was looking for a fossil
DEAL ON HANWAY’S THE SONG OF NAMES for my boyfriend. I was instantly drawn
to this working-class woman who
HANWAY Films has closed a multi-territory (Japan), Frontrow (Middle East), Forum despite being born disadvantaged
deal with Sony Pictures Classics for François (Israel), Cinesky (airlines/ships). within a class-ridden, patriarchal society,
Girard’s The Song of Names, starring Tim Directed by Girard from a screenplay by rose to being one of the leading
Roth and Clive Owen. The deal includes Jeffrey Caine, the film is based on the authorities in her field, but whose
Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, award-winning novel by classical music accomplishments went almost totally
South Africa, Benelux, Portugal, scholar Norman Lebrecht. Howard Shore unrecognised by her
Scandinavia, South Korea, China, Pan-Asia scored the film. Robert Lantos, Lyse contemporaries.”✦ Liza Foreman
Pay TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Lafontaine and Nick Hirschkorn produced.
Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Described as a journey through friendship,
Vietnam. Sony Pictures Classics previously betrayal and reconciliation, The Song of
acquired US rights and will release the film Names is ultimately a detective story
later this year. Additional deals have been spread over two continents and half a NEWS THE OFFICIAL DAIL Y
made with Prorom Media (Bulgaria, century, culminating in the titular song. The
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