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2019 FILMS
The Masque of Blackness
BLOCK D
THEME: Movable Type
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 | 7 - 9 PM
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY | DINA'S PLACE at the DiGIORGIO CAMPUS CENTER | map it
Animation | 2018 | 12 min. 45 sec.
Official Selection
Suggested Rating | G
Country | United Kingdom
Language | English
Producer | Epoh Beech
Director | Epoh Beech
Writer | Epoh Beech
Sound | Esben Tjalve, Matthew Thomas
[Totally Thames 2018]
Epoh Beech's The Masque of Blackness is a hand drawn animation re-imagining Ben Jonson's 1605 play The Masque of Blackness and Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. Created over 7 years out of thousands of charcoal drawings, the animation weaves both texts together and explores the spirit of place to take you on a journey from West Africa to the Thames in London and the Rhine in Germany. It has themes of moonlight, oceans, rivers, unexplored territory and mythological symbolism. Our guides on the journey are Hermes, a grey seal, and Pegasus, the winged horse, they are both unconstrained by the straight jacket of time. | more info
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