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Produced by Acqua Film Inc. and Storyline Entertainment Inc. in co-production with The National Film Board of Canada, in Association with CBC – Rough Cuts and with the Participation of Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Canadian Television Fund - created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry – CTF: Licence Fee Program, IFC: Independent Film Channel, Star Choice Communications Inc. and The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit . © 2005 1580702 Ontario Inc./National Film Board of Canada |
Short Film "Dem Bones" Premiers Bravo! The short film Dem Bones will premiere on Bravo! during Bravo!FACT Presents on Wednesday June 8, 2005 between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. ET. Inspired by the feature documentary A Whale of a Tale, Dem Bones is a short dance film by Peter Lynch; a bold, exhilarating trip that is cinematically emotional and conceptually rich. The story deals with a primordial enigma as the film's characters are transported and transformed through mammalian evolution of time and space. For Lynch this was his first film which incorporated modern dance and was the result of a very gratifying collaboration between choreographer Robert Desrosiers and dancers Elisenda Moya and Irek Muchalski. "For me dance allows you to express ideas beyond conventional reality -- it was very freeing to explore the relationship between dance and camera." Lynch adds, "thematically, I wanted to further explore our pre-historical states and contextualize that in our present pretense of material existence". At the core of its essence, Dem Bones examines and expresses our evolutionary connections to the order of the whale -- an extreme mammal in evolutionary terms." Composer Anne Bourne created the original sound track for the film. She describes the traditional Negro spirituals like "Dem Bones" as songs that slaves sang in order to pass messages on to other slaves as how to escape from their plantation masters. The term "Dem Bones" meant "true voice". Bourne's playful arrangement of Dem Bones features a vocal performance by Molly Johnson. Lynch's long-time collaborators cinematographer Rudolf Blahacek and editor Caroline Christie were also on board. Ed Barreveld and Mehernaz Lentin produced the film. Dem Bones is produced by Acqua Films, Industry Pictures and Storyline Entertainment in association with Bravo!FACT, A Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent, supported by Bravo! NewStyleArtsChannel, a division of CHUM Limited, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The National Film Board of Canada. -30- |
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