Origin
Short Film (UK, 2008)
As a starting point for the music, we have used the last paragraph of the Origin of Species in which Darwin takes us through the cycles of life and death, making us aware that all species are made of the same matter and operate by the same energy and laws.
“…from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful
and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
– Charles Darwin (Origin of Species 1859)
String Quartet, Piano, Voice and Realtime Synthesis
Voice: Anne Bean
Text: Charles Darwin
Music: Janusz Podrazik
© 2008 MRAC Publishing
Screening and exhibitions
Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum
Voices in the Landscape, Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre
Shortwave Cinema
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Darwin Festival Australia
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
Cambridge Darwin Anniversary Festival
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon
R/Evolution exhibition, QUAD, Derby
Happy 200th birthday Charles Darwin | Natural History Museum
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Darwin Centre | Natural History Museum
A three minute film by Anne Bean, inspired by the life and work of Charles Darwin as part of Darwin Originals, a series of films to celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin commissioned and produced by Artsadmin and DVDance, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
- Published:
- 11.03.09 / 11am
- Category:
- Film
