Letters to the Dead - Official Trailer from Chris Purdie on Vimeo.
Over the Last few months I have been having regular production meetings (drinking sessions) with my friend Nick Hudson.
We became acquainted through Stuart Dahlquist after I put together 'Birds' for the band Asva
ASVA - Birds (OFFICIAL) from Chris Purdie on Vimeo.
We both share a mutual love for various stems of Avant-Garde/Experimental music (although I am definitely on the heavier end, more akin to Heavy Doom Metal.
Nick is a musician who performs solo, and also as part of a troupe called Academy of the Sun.
He's putting together a new concept album called Letters to the Dead. Its going to be an ambitious project that will eventually be released on Alter Clef Records and Antithetic Records as an LP/CD/DVD & Book multi platform release in Winter 2012. Its a massive project that I'm excited to be part of.
Being a musician myself, I have been producing and having people produce short films for my shows.
The project with Nick is basically the same thing but on a much larger scale.
The story to the album is complicated and progresses through many themes. But the basic gist of the story centers around a mother who abandons her child to the sea as a sacrifice to the God's, and then her subsequent trial for said crimes.
We also spend time with the childs father, who in an attempt to contact the child posthumously, inadvertently awakens three lost spirits from the sea.
Finally, the mother is convicted and also banished to the sea, where she is reunited with her child.
All very eerie stuff, not to mention the stuff I haven't mentioned, including a seance/possession that's not far off looking like something from The Exorcist.
We took two days off in Brighton to film some scenes and they turned out beautifully - some of which can be seen in the above trailer.
Here are some screenshots of our fun.
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| Shots taken by Lyndsey Muller |
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| Screengrabs from the finished Trailer, taken by myself |
Obviously, we all had a great time working on this and the shoot was definitely a success.
We will hopefully be linking up again soon to shoot further scenes, which will be chronicled on this blog as and when there is any news.
I feel this is a very exciting project to be involved in and I'm looking forward to sharing more with you all.
