New Lights: Music and Film

Presenting an evening of film featuring work by students from University of Greenwich School of Stage and Screen with music by Trinity Laban student composers,  as well as experimental films created by Trinity Laban composers with live musical performance.  

With special thanks to Mary Mullen, Lab Ky Mo, Peter Bathhurst, James Penson and Gosia Pronka-Currier at the School of Stage and Screen, University of Greenwich and to Edward Jessen at Trinity Laban.

With films produced by University of Greenwich School of Stage and Screen.

Film and TV Production Programme Leader: Lab KY Mo

SMART DISASTER

Short Film by University of Greenwich BA Film & TV Production students

Writer, director, editor, co-dop Ergi Elezi

Producer, sound designer and creative director Maria Noutsou

Co-dop Leonardo Farroco

Actors Allan Thurbon, James Benson, Mark Lucas and Jeff Turner

An elderly man forms an unexpected connection with an AI device, but as it begins to ask for payment, he’s forced to confront the truth: the bond he felt was never real.

Snow on the Houses of Common People

Experimental Film by Trinity Laban Composition students

Director and Composer William James

Cello Katherine Harrison

Piano Polina Savicka

Trumpet Iris Rushbrooke

Shots taken from Sarajevo and the Peak District. About a dream I had.

Study on the Phenomenology of Time

Experimental Film by Trinity Laban Composition students

Director and Composer Harry James

Cello Katherine Harrison

Piano Polina Savicka

Trumpet Iris Rushbrooke

In conversation with Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception – an interpretation of his ideas of time perception, (being a. consciousness, b. body, c. nature.) An attempt to translate these ideas into a more emotional spiritual language via memory/recollection using filmic language, sound and music.

Disorder

Dance Film by Trinity Laban Dance and Composition students

Choreography and Direction Martha Thompson

Film and Editing Ray Sims

Composition Samby Anderson

Dancers Tom Lutman, Francesco Piazza, Xinyi Cao, Brodie Boyle, Kelly Huang, Maisie Budden

‘Disorder’ was created in response to recent restrictions on protest rights. It conveys the resistance of young people and follows our own individual experiences finding our voices in the context of widespread division.

A Plea for Peace

Short Film by University of Greenwich BA Film & TV Production in collaboration with Trinity Laban Dance students

Director Mohith Manoj Nair

Director of photography Vasco Da Silva Lourenco

Editor James Penson

Producer Salina Khan

Dancer Anna Zimolohova

Through movement, a contemporary dance piece explores boundaries and tensions that challenge the notion of peace

VAJRA

Short Film by University of Greenwich BA Film & TV Production students

Writer and director Anarghya Kodam

Director of photography and editor Harrison Boyd

Producer Karina Mya Sreeraman

Production Design James Perkins

Sound Noel O’Brien, Catherine Walt

Composer Ethan McInerney

Actors Ram Atirajyam, Geetha Kondappali, Sraddha Parisa and Charlotte Snell

When a city in crisis calls out for its vanished protector, a man haunted by his failures must rise once more.

Paris in April

Experimental Film by Trinity Laban Composition students

Director, Composer, and Electric Guitar Will Herbert

Cello Katherine Harrison

Piano Polina Savicka

Trumpet Iris Rushbrooke

Edited by Eddie Wilson. Paris in April focuses on enjoying time in a space you have no secure connection to, featuring footage from a trip to Paris.

Skip Beat

Experimental Film by Trinity Laban Composition students

Director and Composer Jack Smith

Cello Katherine Harrison

Piano Polina Savicka

Trumpet Iris Rushbrooke

Stuck record motifs that form from more fluid melodic phrases across music and film.