Shadowplay

Today I would like to share with you a beautiful, poetic, extremely moving short film by Dan Blank.

In August of 1945, in a closing chapter of the second World War, a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima. The places that were shielded from that searing light became permanent shadows on the city's walls and streets, while the city itself was decimated. "Shadowplay" is the story of Akio, a shadow of a young boy, who wanders the city searching for his family, while trying to make sense of the unfathomable atrocity.

The Gershwin Piano Quartet

George Gershwin's famous "I Got Rhythm", arranged by André Desponds and performed by the Gershwin Piano Quartet. This group features 4 pianists, Mischa Cheung, André Desponds,
Benjamin Engeli and Stefan Wirth on 4 grand pianos, playing, arranging and improvising on works by Gershwin, Ravel, Stravinsky, Piazzolla and Porter. gershwinpianoquartet.com

Video directed and edited by Georg Lendorff. Sound engineering by Lasse Nipkow 

This just makes me smile

That Happy Place

Do you have an imaginary place that you escape to when all around you is going insane? Well, my place would look something like this. Now if only I could make myself 1 inch tall.

Astounding!

This video gives just a small taste of the production of Wagner's "Siegfried"  presented in Ciudad de las Ciencias y Artes, Valencia-Spain in June 2008. Urano Films created 5 hours of video. 14 simultaneous projectors were used on stage!! Can you tell that I am salivating?