What's On - FINIS TERRAE (1929) New Live Score Performance

CINETOPIA PRESENTS: FINIS TERRAE %2B LIVE SCORE ON TOUR

A reimagining of Jean Epstein’s groundbreaking 1929 silent drama with a new, original score performed live, by Edinburgh-based composer/musician Dan Abrahams and French drummer Philippe Boudot.

Jean Epstein's 1929 silent masterwork tells the story of four seaweed harvesters on a remote island off the coast of Brittany, cut off from the world as they toil amidst burning pyres of kelp.

A petty quarrel arising between two of the group, Ambroise and Jean Marie, quickly turns to tragedy, leaving Ambroise with an undetected poisoned wound. When later he is discovered delirious and feverish, Jean-Marie must take him to nearby Ouessant island, across the fog-laden, turbulent sea, to reach a doctor.

Shot in a documentary-style, using local non-actors, Jean Epstein’s camera reveals an unforgiving, isolated environment where men live a hard, rudimentary existence of toil against the sea and the elements.

Through experimental techniques, Epstein frames the landscape, the sky, and the waters in a highly poetic visual style, rich in atmosphere, and a dual sense of menace and beauty.

Screening in dazzling, 4K restoration quality by Gaumont.


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