Double Bill with Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
Directed by Michael Nyman | UK | 2015 | Doc/experimental |65 mins
US Premiere
Film Source: Filmmakers
VTIFF is proud to present the North American premiere of this powerful new work. Internationally renowned composer Michael Nyman (whose scores for films include Jane Campion’s The Piano and multiple collaborations with Peter Greenaway) directs this experimental, musically driven meditation on the horrors of WWI. Comprised of archival material and documentary footage from the period, examples of visual arts and films made in response to the war, as well as chanson vieilles and other texts from English and European poets, War Work is an immersive rumination on the devastating impact of armed conflict. With its recurring images of disfigured and debilitated veterans and its depiction of everyday life affected by war, the film is a powerful and haunting statement that resonates profoundly with current circumstances around the globe.