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