Aurora Borealis – northern Norway (2010)
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Aurora Borealis (The Northern Lights) – shot in northern Norway in February 2010. This is the first time this material has been available on-line. The grainy quality of the footage is due to the extreme difficulty of capturing this phenomenon on camera. We saw this display on the first night we were there – in the mountains a long drive north east of Tromso, and around an hour’s snow mobile ride from the nearest habitation. Then there was nothing more for the rest of the trip but that one night was amazing. It had been -42c a week before we arrived but only dropped to around -20c when we were there.
The soundscape is from atmospheres that came from The Rooms sessions.
Breath (Symphony of the Senses) trailer (2010)
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A trailer for the non-verbal feature film Breath (Symphony of the Senses) – currently in development. Breath is a mesmerising cinematic trip through three intertwined journeys – birth to death, innocence to awakening, and planetary evolution – and asks “are we sleepwalking through life?” Harnessing ground-breaking technology, some never before seen in cinema, this film stimulates and challenges the senses and will leave cinema audiences never quite seeing the world the same way again.
Breath looks at how environment shapes us. It presents entirely new perspectives on landscape, from some of the most wild and remote places on Earth. From the serene and heartbreakingly beautiful, to the wild and destructive, the dramas of human life are illustrated through the metaphors of landscape and climate. The soundtrack is at the heart of this film with sound design from multi-Oscar winning Randy Thom, and an original score by Philip Clemo.
Melt (2009)
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A short film to the second track from the Soundzero album (a musical collaboration with composer and violinist Ysanne Spevack). The film was produced, edited and directed by Philip Clemo and shot on full HD on location in Iceland, mainly from the air using a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a helicopter.
Shown at the Reykjavik International Film Festival in 2009 and the London Short Film Festival in 2010.
Separated by Shadows Tour 2005/06
A compilation of clips from the 2005/06 Separated by Shadows tour. The London Jazz Festival concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Nov 2005, with an interview with Philip Clemo.
Philip Clemo (guitar, laptop), Clive Bell (reeds), Tom Chant (sax, clarinet), Kevin Pollard (keyboards), Simon Wagland (cello), John Edwards (bass), Pete Lockett (percussion), Orphy Robinson (percussion) and Mark Sanders (drums, percussion).
Separated by Shadows film (2005)
A one hour film made for the Separated by Shadows tour 2005/06. Shot on location in Iceland, South East Asia and Australasia, using high speed and time-lapse filming techniques, the film explores ideas around the abstraction of nature through the distortion of scale and time.
Live at Cargo, London, 2001
Philip Clemo, Ysanne Spevack, John Edwards and Mark Sanders, live at Cargo in London.
Metal On Water (1999)
Short film made to accompany the opening track of Inhale the Colours. Moves between rich washes of colour and aqueous movement to a furiously paced flickering of abstract light reflections.
Directed by Philip Clemo. Music composed by Philip Clemo and Ysanne Spevack.
An Altered Perspective
(Journeys in the East) (1995)
Interpretations of a journey through Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia and Western New Guinea in 1993/94. Images of landscape, water, exploration, work, ritual, with a multi-layered soundscape of birdcalls, market sellers and street sounds.
Directed by Philip Clemo. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
Objects And Observations (1993)
A vivid, evocative collection of images from Croatia, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom, linked with studio footage.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
From The Morning On (1990)
A travelogue based around the passing of a day in India and Nepal, shot on location over six weeks. Shown at the Leicester Independent Film Festival in 1990.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
Box In the Sun (1990)
An abstract, richly visual story about the journeys and dreams of a disoriented map reader, with a narration from ‘Under A Glass Bell’ by Anais Nin. Shown at the Leicester Independent Film Festival in 1990.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.