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The Valkyries. Image by Tony O'Brien
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The Wild Things. Image by Tony O'Brien
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The Wanderer. Image by Hilary Powell
Screening
Ring Cycle
14 Jul 2017
Event times
6.30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- High house Production Park
- Purfleet Bypass
- Purfleet
Essex - RM19 1RJ
- United Kingdom
A film and live score salvaged from London's hinterlands
About
Ring Cycle is an audio visual symphony that transposes Wagner’s epic cast of gods and mortals into a contemporary Thameside landscape. From river maidens on concrete barges to exiled gods and flaming shopping trolleys, Ring Cycle presents an allegory of industrial capitalism just inside London's own ring of the M25.
Filmed on Rainham Marshes and the Thames foreshore, Ring Cycle reveals Purfleet, Essex as a place where the toxic and angelic combine in a twenty-first century version of the sublime. A live score, created in collaboration with the Cabinet of Living Cinema, includes a mobile foley studio of found objects and a community chorus sounding the whoosh of wind turbines and the call of birds that bring the film to vivid life.
Powell is the final recipient of the Stephen Cripps Studio Award based at ACME Studios, High House Production Park. Ring Cycle is presented as prelude to the Big Screen relay of Turandot organised by Royal Opera House Thurrock and the Backstage Centre http://www.roh.org.uk/about/bp-big-screens/purfleet. It is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
