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Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard
it's called "a portrait", not a documentary. um, yeah.
it's no biopic. i enjoy Dead Can Dance and the soundtracks, but i didn't know much about Gerrard herself when i went into the film. afterward, i still know very little. okay, she lives in the woods somewhere (i'm not sure what country) and has two children (i do not know how she acquired them or when). i found out she had a sibling when they mentioned that his death upset her (i do not know how he died). she might have been dating the DCD guy? um, she has a studio in her house and i think she uses ProTools. the only coherent storytelling is from the people who hired her to do soundtracks. (i especially liked the Whale Rider director.)
for a movie about a musician, the sound is terrible. one-man studio Clive Collier can't ever let us just listen to Gerrard or any of the other interviewees without layering in some kind of background noise (like gunfire or city sounds). interviews without layered sound feature wind or other ambient noise. he also can't record a clean live performance. (this preview was held at the JBL theater at EMP, so i can't blame the sound system.) the best experience of the music was with clips from films she had scored...which i had already seen.
there are candle-flame images. and smoke tendril images. and water droplet images. and rustling trees. and dudes fighting in the middle east. and busy streets. and quotes from the Babel bible story. it's self-consciously arty.
maybe hardcore fans will get something more out of the film than i did. i learned about ten minutes' worth of information about the artist, saw little quality performance, and the ninety minutes felt like a good three hours. if watching someone sing (with intermittent audibility) under an overpass while traffic whizzes by intermingled with a discussion about how the cars are participants sounds interesting, then this is for you.
good luck to everyone attending An Evening With Lisa Gerrard.
it's called "a portrait", not a documentary. um, yeah.
it's no biopic. i enjoy Dead Can Dance and the soundtracks, but i didn't know much about Gerrard herself when i went into the film. afterward, i still know very little. okay, she lives in the woods somewhere (i'm not sure what country) and has two children (i do not know how she acquired them or when). i found out she had a sibling when they mentioned that his death upset her (i do not know how he died). she might have been dating the DCD guy? um, she has a studio in her house and i think she uses ProTools. the only coherent storytelling is from the people who hired her to do soundtracks. (i especially liked the Whale Rider director.)
for a movie about a musician, the sound is terrible. one-man studio Clive Collier can't ever let us just listen to Gerrard or any of the other interviewees without layering in some kind of background noise (like gunfire or city sounds). interviews without layered sound feature wind or other ambient noise. he also can't record a clean live performance. (this preview was held at the JBL theater at EMP, so i can't blame the sound system.) the best experience of the music was with clips from films she had scored...which i had already seen.
there are candle-flame images. and smoke tendril images. and water droplet images. and rustling trees. and dudes fighting in the middle east. and busy streets. and quotes from the Babel bible story. it's self-consciously arty.
maybe hardcore fans will get something more out of the film than i did. i learned about ten minutes' worth of information about the artist, saw little quality performance, and the ninety minutes felt like a good three hours. if watching someone sing (with intermittent audibility) under an overpass while traffic whizzes by intermingled with a discussion about how the cars are participants sounds interesting, then this is for you.
good luck to everyone attending An Evening With Lisa Gerrard.
