The Ballet of the Nations (2019)
Billy Zane narrates this 50-minute arthouse film in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death.
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The film begins with Satan and Ballet Master Death discussing how to reintroduce chaos into a complacent society. Satan instructs Ballet Master Death to assemble an orchestra of human passions (Fear, Panic, Suspicion, Hatred, Heroism, Murder etc.) to provide the music for a corps de ballet of Nations to perform the dance macabre of war. What follows is an often-humorous assembly of the orchestra, filmed in the atmospheric cavernous tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads. Following this assembly, we see the core Nations perform their dance, joined by a larger cohort of Nations for the final act, Revenge. The film is interspersed with danced sections performed by a Chorus, evocative of the choric elements of classical Greek tragedy.
- Release date
- April 3, 2019
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
- Music
- Robert Bentall
Cast
- Grace Brockington as Vernon Lee
- Peter Clements as Ballet Master Death
- Peter Clements as Ballet Master Death
- Alex Anderson Crow as Sin
- Sonya Cullingford as Satan
- Billy Zane as Narrator
Crew
- Roseanna Anderson · Director
- Joshua Ben-Tovim · Director
- Roseanna Anderson · Writer
- Joshua Ben-Tovim · Writer
- Roseanna Anderson · Producer
- Joshua Ben-Tovim · Producer
- Gwenfair Hawkins · Producer
- Kim Heron · Producer
- Robert Bentall · Composer
- Jack Offord · Cinematographer
- Duncan Wood · Editor