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The Enemy Within
Posted by: | April 15, 2010 | Comments Off on The Enemy Within
Producer/Media Contact: Pam Bentley C: 778-386-1912 E: pjbentley63@yahoo.ca
THE ENEMY WITHIN
a presentation of LIVE music and film:
a collaboration between
composer/performer Jeff Caron
and filmmaker Tara Flynn
at the UBC Recital Hall
April 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Admission is free
(Vancouver, BC) The Enemy Within is to be performed for the first time on April 17, 2010. The presentation at the UBC Recital Hall combines original music played live with the screening of a film specifically made to accompany that music.
Although this pairing harkens back to the time when silent film was accompanied by live musical accompaniment, its genesis reversed this process and began when Jeff Caron asked Tara Flynn, friend and 2009 graduate of the Capilano University documentary filmmaking program, to make a film to accompany his semester-end performance as a UBC music student. The 20-minute film explores the idea that any act of creativity, like those of Caron’s compositions, and Flynn’s filmmaking, forms connections between those involved and those who are watching.
Jeff Caron describes the five piece musical composition as a “gamut of styles ranging from contemporary classical to ambient-techno to pure hard rock. The emphasis is on texture and mood – supported by the use of extreme dynamics, irregular meter changes, and various small ensemble configurations from solo to trio, and beyond …”
Flynn’s film is rooted in her East Vancouver neighbourhood, with familiar locations, and the daily crow crossing as a motif. The protagonist, played by Daryle Delisle, attempts to use his music to connect with other city-dwellers who are seemingly unaware of him and everyone and everything around them. They anesthetize themselves against human contact with their technological gadgets in an urban landscape riddled with surveillance cameras. Our protagonist, startled by his own despairing and even violent reaction to this isolation, finds a way to communicate his love for music and the world even when he feels surrounded by security cameras and technological zombies.
Daryle Delisle, “The Nomadic Actor,” was in Vancouver from Ottawa and was presented was this opportunity to play the lead in The Enemy Within. “I am very fortunate to have been part of this East Vancouver family for a while, to create such a wonderful film to compliment such exciting music,” says Delisle.
The Enemy Within is conceptualized by Jeff Caron and Tara Flynn, written and produced by Pam Bentley and Tara Flynn, and directed and edited by Tara Flynn. Assistant Director is Warren Dean Fulton. Musicians Nando Polesel (drums) and Peter Serravalle (bass) join Jeff Caron (guitar) on stage.
