Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe

In 2010 I scored a short film by J. Makary as part of the Philagraphika Festival. This film was shot and installed the historic Powel House in Philadelphia, PA. The short 8:00 film is now up online to view - http://vimeo.com/20786798

It’s a surrealistic narrative with dance, dialog and my original score performed by New York based modern chamber trio, janus.

I’m very happy with this collaboration with J.

Married but unhappy, Paloma and Raúl live in San Serriffe, a fictional island-nation featured in a travel supplement in The Guardian newspaper in 1977. Through the use of sound and image, the film re-imagines its site — the 18th-century Powel House in Philadelphia — as an uneasy domestic space in a fluctuating time of civil unrest.