THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE

CATEGORY: art, culture, music & dance programme, music programme, society, transformation, tv programme
STATUS: in distribution
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 length: 4039 ft.
| 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.

:: PORGY & ME

Susanna Boehm‘s PORGY&ME tells the touching story of the lifelong passionate battle of black artists for recognition, self-realization and equality in the face of everyday worries, difficult setbacks and the shackles of one’s own origins.
More

:: In Cinemas

The first cinema film about the myterious inside life of one of the world's best orchestras: The Berliner Philharmoniker and their conductor-in-chief Sir Simon Rattle. Released in cinemas in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, UK, Poland, Japan and more to come!
More

:: RHYTHM IS IT!

This award winning and inspiring film about empowerment through dance and music is one of Germany‘s most successful documentaries ever.
More

:: Page Advising