Djerassi Creek

Djerassi Creek, video still, 2015 (TRT: 4:14)

I have been preoccupied with massed choirs and collective singing for longer than I can remember. This experimental film short was based on footage I gathered as research while I was on a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California in 2010. Never quite resolved, in 2015, I created a new version featuring myself conducting a Welsh massed choir of 8,000 men atop a creekside podium.

Credits:

Directed and edited by Mel Day
Director of Cinematography by Sade Heron
Sound by Sade Heron
Production Assistant: Skip Gianocca, Jr (1952-2014)Sound by The World Choir of over 8,000 strong sing “Jacobs Ladder” and “Soldier’s Chorus” (Faust) from the old Cardiff Park Arms Stadium (1993)
Credit: 2havago / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYVHXHcFts

Thanks to the support of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.