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Art Cinema and Marquee TV are proud to announce the digital release of War Work: Eight Songs with Film, Michael Nyman’s creation commemorating the centenary of the First World War. A total artwork, it combines various visual, poetic and musical archives.

Eight songs form a song cycle inspired by the Belgian Gaston de Ruyter’s Chansons Vieilles sur d’Autres Airs (old songs to other tunes). Poems written by poets who all died during the war, except David Bomberg, are set to music based on emblematic tunes by Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Chopin and others.

Without a voice-over, War Work reveals the potency of images from German and French First World War film archives which have rarely been seen. The film element, edited by Max Pugh, unearths the bodies of war – mutilated and disfigured soldiers – which have too often been forgotten. War Work does not show the slaughter but the effects of war and its memory: the psychological trauma and the physical wounds caused by a humanitarian disaster after which nothing would be the same again.

“It’s a film without any dialogue, commentary or interviews, and it is basically raw visual material and raw sound material. It’s a thrilling way of making a film and a thrilling way of using images with intelligence. 

“This kind of stream of consciousness approach of being a quasi-documentary maker I think has been the most thrilling film project I’ve ever been involved with, and now I have a real appetite for taking this approach and making other films with available documentation.” Michael Nyman 2018

Digital release: Marquee TV, December 15th 2018

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Myriam Blundell Phillips the founder and manager director of Art Cinema. Her experience encompasses content development, curatorial advisory and talent management.  Since 2004, Ms Blundell Phillips has provided both commercial and creative guidance to an eclectic pool of artists, including internationally acclaimed British composer Michael Nyman for whom she acted as global manager and producer; Belgian artist, writer and theatre director Jan Fabre; British filmmaker Martha Fiennes, Canadian artist and filmmaker Jody Shapiro, and German conceptual artist Roland Biermann.

Since 2011, Ms Blundell Phillips produced and released two art house documentaries entitled: NYman with a Movie Camera and “War Work”. Her previous non-executive achievements include leading the Friends of Signy and Olaf Willums Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, sitting as the founding chair of the international collectors forum as well as joining the board of trustees the Contemporary Art Society in London.
myriam@artcinema.art

Dr Anne Sophie Refskou has worked extensively within international creative arts and higher education. She regularly gives public lectures and has published in a number of different media. In recent years, she has worked as a performer, dramaturg, reviewer, film producer and exhibition curator. Her prize-winning PhD research on the cultural history of compassion in early modern drama was completed in 2015, and she currently holds a lectureship in theatre and performance at the University of Surrey.
annesophie@artcinema.art

Vikki Nelson has a background in visual arts and the creation of International exhibitions and unique, bespoke events. As Arts Cinema’s creative producer she has experience working with artists and establishments, planning, project managing and curating exhibitions. Working within PR and marketing she creates, develops and produces content and strategy across all media.
vikki@artcinema.art

Dominique Païni is the former head of the Cinémathèque Française and director of multidisciplinary projects and Film at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He brings an extensive and wealth of knowledge of curating the intersection between visual arts and film. His expérience as a seasoned essay writer and publisher is a huge contribution to Art Cinema’s focus on producing the highest standards possibly achievable in the fields of writings and Publishing. Dominique Païni’s latest exhibition Godard- Picasso : Collages is currently on display at the Festival des rencontres Photogrpahique d’Arles until September 23rd 2018.
dominique@artcinema.art

Jan Stephan Hillebrand is a strategic advisor, film and theatre producer and marketing specialist. His strength lies in bringing together experts and artists with widely different talents and channelling their capabilities in order to produce compelling artistic content. He has advised a number of high profile corporations to support their mission statements through the promotion of the Arts. He has staged more than 250 business and arts events and has written, designed and produced more than 50 screen plays.
jan@artcinema.art

Alix Agret is an art historian. She holds a MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD in Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art. Visual culture, representations of the body and eroticism were at the core of the MA in History and the MA in Film Studies she earned in France (Paris-Sorbonne University and Paris West University Nanterre la Défense). She has worked as an assistant curator on several exhibitions in France. She regularly writes articles for art magazines.
alix@artcinema.art