About the Show
An interactive feature film screening, with live music, foley, performers, and audiences gift boxes of sensory stimulants.
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Timeslow: The Timeless Tales of Henry Glint is a New Zealand feature film that follows Henry Glint, a quite normal man whose life is turned upside down when he discovers a chocolate bar that can slow down time. Director Sally Tran has now recut, remixed, and re-graded the film for a live, immersive experience in which the world of the narrative will become indistinguishable from the event space.
The film’s showing will be done in collaboration with two piece indie synth band O Paradiso with Mike McFadden to create an original score, while sound studio One Thousand Birds will create an interactive sound showcase via live foley art. This combination will allow the event to become an extension of the film’s fictional world, whilst the sensory box kit will encourage viewers to place themselves into the narrative; for example, as Henry eats a magical chocolate bar under a time limit, the audience members will pull out their chocolate bars from their sensory box kit and attempt to do the same.
The kit has ten featured elements that request you to either touch, smell, eat, write, or read, fully engaging audience members and allowing them to become apart of the presentation. A stage set and props that mimic what’s on screen featured in real life, and other performances that are spread throughout the screening. This unique presentation merges film and theatre together for a multifaceted event and becoming the the film’s premiere on Thursday, August the 31st at 8pm EST.
About the Artists
Sally Tran
Sally Tran is a New Zealand Director based in New York. She is recognized for her unique, extravagant and detailed design work featured throughout film, art and animation. Her innovative approach to filmmaking has seen her collaborate with diverse artists and organizations which lead her to create this interactive live event merging film and theatre, music, design, and performance. All things she loves.
Sally has developed and created work through, scholarships, film-financing, residencies, and speaking engagements in multiple cities. “I love the idiosyncratic nature of her work and feel her time in New York will help her find where it fits in the international industry.” – Producer and selector (Script to Screen Scholarship) Fiona Copland (Matariki, The strength of Water)
O Paradiso
O Paradiso’s songs are bred from lush, distressed harmonic structures and sharp rhythms interwoven with both colorful and commanding lyrical interjections. The results are taught compositions hinged at an electronic cinematic experimentation.
With interactive visual arts performances, O Paradiso have shared stages with dancers, performers, filmmakers, as well as other musicians such as Maria Minerva, Light Asylum, and Psychic Twin. O Paradiso is poised to introduce their adventurous new sound and performances to ever widening audiences.
Stereogum, Miles Bowe: “The jerky, abnormal percussion got the audience interest[ed], and the best moments were when they balance a certain creepiness with their sweet melodies. I’ll be keeping an eye on them.”
Mike McFadden
Mike McFadden is an NYC based composer, and sound artist. He utilizes diverse approaches Ranging from electro acoustic, and indeterminacy to the composition of Pop music. Having worked in Music, Film, Fashion, and Installation he has created a varied and adventurous body of work.
One Thousand Birds
ONE THOUSAND BIRDS STUDIOS creates immersive sonic landscapes with depth and realism using an extensive HD sound library, as well as custom foley and field recordings. Through layering, stretching, reversing, pitching, chopping, and echoing, they build sounds that not only fit the image but enhance its impact.
Laura Dopp and partner Andrew Tracy have extended One Thousand Birds into a Sound Studio specialising in innovative interactive sound making art, using unexpected objects like plants, water, paint, light, walls and lasers, accompanied with the tender touch, to make sound art.
