Moon / Clouds / Earth, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 9:46 minutes / HD / black & white
In this video, moon, clouds, and earth come together in a work on meditation and transformation.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Silent
Morning In Varanasi, Series I, No. 1, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 15:40 minutes / HD / colour
Two men are engaged in an activity. A third man walks in the distance. This footage was filmed on October 8, 2012 at the shores of the Ganges in Varanasi, India.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Silent
Morning In Varanasi, Series I, No. 3, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 11:35 minutes / HD / colour
Two men are engaged in an activity. This footage was filmed on October 8, 2012 at the shores of the Ganges in Varanasi, India.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Silent
Stone / Water / Head, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 4:45 minutes / HD / colour
Stone, water, head, sound, time, circularity.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: John Heward
About the musician: John Heward is internationally recognized as a percussionist/drummer in “free jazz” as well as being a well-known painter and sculptor. Heward has worked with Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Malcolm Goldstein and many other musicians. He lives and works in Montreal.
Barre III, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 2:54 / HD / black & white
Light and shadow are amplified and transformed by Barre Phillips’ improvisation, recorded in La Chapelle Sainte Philomène, Puget-Ville, France, October 2010.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Barre Phillips, bass
About the musician: Barre Phillips is a jazz and free jazz improvisation bassist. Phillips’ 1968 recording of solo bass improvisations, issued as Journal Violone in the USA, Unaccompanied Barre in England, and Basse Barre in France, is generally credited as the first solo bass record. A 1971 record with Dave Holland, Music from Two Basses, was probably the first record of bass duets. In the 1970s he was a member of the well-regarded and influential group The Trio, with saxophonist John Surman and drummer Stu Martin. In the 1980s and 1990s he played regularly with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra led by fellow bassist Barry Guy. In 1991 he worked with Ornette Coleman on the soundtrack of the motion picture Naked Lunch.
Barre I version 2, 2012 (excerpt)
Running time: 4:48 minutes / HD / colour
Barre Phillips improvises in La Chapelle Sainte Philomène, Puget-Ville, France, October 2010. The Ocean and haze of Nova Scotia are amplified and transformed by his improvisations.
Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Barre Phillips, bass
About the musician: Barre Phillips is a jazz and free jazz improvisation bassist. Phillips’ 1968 recording of solo bass improvisations, issued as Journal Violone in the USA, Unaccompanied Barre in England, and Basse Barre in France, is generally credited as the first solo bass record. A 1971 record with Dave Holland, Music from Two Basses, was probably the first record of bass duets. In the 1970s he was a member of the well-regarded and influential group The Trio, with saxophonist John Surman and drummer Stu Martin. In the 1980s and 1990s he played regularly with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra led by fellow bassist Barry Guy. In 1991 he worked with Ornette Coleman on the soundtrack of the motion picture Naked Lunch.
