SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE ( City Slang / BFI - 2017 )
Premiere - BFI London Film Festival 2016
2017 : International Film Festival Rotterdam // Gotenborg Film Festival // Dublin International Film Festival // Thessaloniki International Film Festival // FabiFest, Prague // BAFICI // Indielisboa // Istanbul Film Festival // Curtas Vila do Conde // Helsinki International Film Festival // Viennale...
MINUTE BODIES, the intimate world of F. Percy Smith
Edited by Stuart Staples, based on F. Percy Smith short films - 2016 - 55 min
STORYLINE:
The latest 'film and music' project of Tindersticks is a collage of the science films made in early 1900s by F. Percy Smith-naturalist, inventor and documentarist. It took three years to complete this nature documentary, poetic music video, or ode to science, which was scored by Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott. The characters of Smith's black and white time-lapse films mostly shot under a microscope are spores, microbes, leaves, insects, and myriad mysteries of nature.
Original soundtrack by Tindersticks with Christine Ott & Thomas Belhom :
Christine Ott // Ondes Martenot, Piano, Rhodes, Glockenspiel, Voice
Stuart A. Staples // Electric guitar, loops, omnichord, voice
Thomas Belhom // Drums, Percussions
Dan McKinna // Double bass, piano
Davic Coulter // Bass harmonica, Musical Bow, Nose flute
Neil Fraser // Electric guitar, glockenspiel
Julian Siegel // Saxophone, bass clarinet
Including Christine Ott solo works in alternative versions :
"Percy's Theme" & Percy's Dream based on unreleased theme, 2015
"Tiny honey gatherers" based on "Tempête" piece (from "Only Silence Remains", Gizeh records)
"Brewsters Magic" based on "Landscape" piece (unreleased track, 2013)