Three Hundred and Thirty Three: Part One – Daisy Dickinson and Maxim Barron
How deep does our connection to music run?
How deep does our connection to music run?
Three Hundred and Thirty Three by visual artist Daisy Dickinson is a triptych of films set in and around the ancient sites and nature of the North East of England. Co-commissioned by The Glasshouse and Mediale, we wanted to create something that dug deep into some of the themes that came out of conversations we've had with audiences about the role music plays in their lives.
The stories we heard spoke of music that creates bonds, uncovers and intensifies emotions of all kinds, and helps us form the deepest memories. Music lives and grows here - and has done for generations.
Daisy took this idea and ran. All the way back to our ancient landscapes in the North East. A place where music seems to come from the stones and the forests themselves. And where haunting figures remind us of what came before, but still remains.
Creative team
Film: Daisy Dickinson
Music: Maxim Barron featuring Takatsuna Mukai
Cast: Takatsuna Mukai and Thom Van Day
Second Camera: Julia Laird
Stylist: Thom Van Day
Creative Producer: From the Other
Co-produced and co-commissioned by Mediale and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
In their words:
“In Part One, Daisy Dickinson and long-time collaborator Maxim Barron wanted to explore their shared family heritage in the North East. Revisiting places that hold dreamlike memories from childhood, the film reimagines a landscape that echoes traces of magic and ceremony. Soundtracked by the haunting music of Maxim Barron, violinist Takatsuna Mukai and field recordings from within the stone circles, waterfalls and the landscape in the film, the atmospheric score invites you on a journey through spells and seances to awaken the land and the music and sounds that lie within.”
Filmed on location around the North East including Duddo Five Stones, The Blue Lagoon in Hexham, High Force and Low Force Waterfalls, Lordenshaw Stone Circles, Roughting Linn Cup and Ring Markings, Doddington Moor and Bamburgh Castle.