A DELICATE FIRE

FROM THE MADRIGALS OF BARABARA STROZZI 
A FILM BY PINCHGUT OPERA 
2021

NOTE

Love is strange, beautiful, hurtful and absurd - but we must surrender to its mysteries.

Our hero begins her journey through an unsettling and painterly world. She drives down a highway, arrives at an abandoned house, travels through a seemingly endless corridor of broken-hearted lovers, praises love out of a window, and finds furtive romance in a garden. Familiar domestic spaces are rendered uncanny as she muses on love and its power to intoxicate the world around us. This moody vision is torn apart and laid bare. A frenzied film set is deconstructed and our characters play and revel in the cynical absurdity of this mad human endeavour that simultaneously thrills and depresses us.

AWARDS

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE -  ATOM AWARDS
BEST AUSTRALIAN FEATURE - SYDNEY WOMEN’S
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

PRESS

CREDITS

CONCEPT - CONSTANTINE COSTI, ERIN HELYARD,
CHARLOTTE MUNGOMERY 
DIRECTOR - CONSTANTINE COSTI 
MUSICAL DIRECTOR - ERIN HELYARD
PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGNER -
CHARLOTTE MUNGOMERY 
PRODUCER - REBECCA LAMOND
CINEMATOGRAPHER - DIMITRI ZAUNDERS
EDITOR - JAMES VAUGHAN 
SHANNON BURNS - CHOREOGRAPHY 
ART DIRECTOR - ELLA BUTLER
WITH ANNA DOWSLEY, TARYN FIEBIG, CHLOE LANKSHEAR, KEARA DONOHOE, NICHOLAS JONES, DAVID GRECO, ANDREW O’CONNOR, ANTHEA COTTEE, HANNAH LANE, SIMON MARTYN-ELLIS, MATTHEW GRECO, KARINA SCHMITZ, ALLIE GRAHAM & NEALE WHITTAKER

DIMITRI ZAUNDERS