THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE

CATEGORY: art, culture, music & dance programme, music programme, society, transformation, tv programme
STATUS: in production
A Film by Silvia Beck

THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE

A Nocturnal Adventure

THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE by Sir John Tavener, 2003, is an internationally celebrated but rarely performed, seven-hour monumental piece, that unites western and far-eastern sounds and texts from all world religions.
Runtime: 45 min.
| Film format: Digi Beta
| Recording format: Digital Beta
Audio format: Stereo
| Picture ratio: 16:9
Cast

Simon Halsey | Conductor
Sir John Tavener | Composer
Rogier Hardeman | Stage Director
The Choirs: Rundfunkchor Berlin, ensemberlino vocale, Cantus Domus, Kammerchor des Collegium Musicum der Berliner Universitäten FU und TU, Berliner Mädchenchor

Team

Script: Silvia Beck
Directed by: Silvia Beck
Directors of Photography: Ingo Brunner, Marcus Winterbauer, Martin Bär, Robert Laatz
Sound: Michael Kaczmarek, Andreas Koeppen
Montage: Markus Aha
Original Music: Sir John Tavener
Line producer: Marc Wächter
Producers: Andrea Thilo, Julia Gechter

Commissioned by: Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin
In cooperation with RBB Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

World distribution
World Distribution by BTMI | BOOMTOWNMEDIA INTERNATIONAL
Synopsis

THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE | A JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT condenses this unusual event of sound and space into a unique 60 minute journey trough life, faith and the search for meaning. A journey of music, singing and imagery, which traces the common grounds of all religions without using any language.

200 singers – laymen as well as the internationally reknown Rundfunkchor Berlin, conducted by Simon Halsey – merge into one community with 700 spectators. In a parallel picture world, the film searches for everyday faith, spirituality and survival, turning it into a trip from darkness to light, from dusk to dawn: nightshift workers and cleaners, bearers of live, emergency doctors and gamblers, a sleepless person at the window, praying individuals of all religions, party hoppers – the search for meaning in the different yet universal faces of a metropolis, restless and placid at the same time.

On TV
Broadcast on RBB, December 13th 2009, 11.45pm Screening at RADIALSYSTEM V – NEW SPACE FOR THE ARTS
December 13 2009 at 10pm, doors open at 9pm
Holzmarkstrasse 33
10243 Berlin
Admission: €5

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