We are delighted to be returning to Summer by the River for the last of the Summer sun, Wed, 8th Sept at Scoop Amphitheatre with a huge screen projecting Vertov’s incredible cinematic experiment: Man with a Movie Camera (promo on home page) and more clips from our 90th Anniversary Score at LSO St. Luke’s here. with tracks frrom the score available on A Forest Grew.

We have brand new dates in the pipeline for our Enchanted Cinema Tour (now extended to May 2022), with new strands including Nosferatu (celebrating the Expressionist masterpiece’s 100th birthday at Margate Film Festival, 30th Oct), the award-winning 1982 animation of the Snowman over Chrimbo with live FX provided by YOU, the Diorama Cinema project devised in collaboration with graphic novelist Hannah Eaton (family workshop). Get in touch for more details.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We are also looking for storytellers to contribute to our Tales for the Longest Night project – tales of haunting, ghosts, apparitions and the supernatural which we are gathering over October to be performed with live scores by us at Durlston Castle and other atmospheric venues.

For a sense of how stories, music and field recordings can work beautifully, listen to our Sound Journeys of Dorset, made in collaboration with BBC radio producer, Sarah Cuddon.

Sarah also used our music for her contribution to award-winning Radio 4 programme Shortcuts, this month devoted to surrealist Leonora Carrington.

Finally, this summer we released our own surreal sci-fi short Pedalo, featuring Private Grey Owl/ Pedalo from the Shortcuts piece & illustration by Hannah Eaton, made by the Visionary Boscombe Group over lockdown.

SOUND JOURNEYS OF DORSET

RADIO 4 SHORTCUTS: LEONORA CARRINGTON (featuring Private Grey Owl/ Pedalo)

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

NOSFERATU (100th Anniversary)

PEDALO