{"identifier":"APR-Penelope_6312280975112","browse_author":"Ben Ferris (Director) and Artemis Projects PTY (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350922143,"description":"The film is a lyrical treatment of Homer's tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of film directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky (The Mirror), Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) and Bela Tarr (Werckmeister Harmonies). Director Ben Ferris and Director of Photography James Barahanos also embrace this style in their short films Ascension and The Kitchen. In Ferris' mythical tale of Penelope, the technique is used as a dramatic device that experiments with time and space to build the tension and sense of nostalgia experienced by the waiting heroine. Penelope presents performances that have been choreographed to a hauntingly beautiful score by renowned film composer Max Richter (Shutter Island, Stranger Than Fiction, Waltz With Bashir).\n Ben Ferris is an Australian film writer/director who has won major international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan for his short film \"The Kitchen\" (2003) and the Grand Prix at the One Take Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia for his short film \"Ascension\" (2004). He has written and directed the feature film \"Penelope\" (2009) which screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival and the doco-drama feature \"57 Lawson\" (2016) which was given 4/4 stars by The Age, and listed as a Top 5 Film by the Sydney Morning Herald. Language - Croatian Subtitles: English","videoId":6312280975112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Penelope","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"APR-Penelope","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/ba959907-3bd3-402b-b59c-2eef51fd1008/808516bf-26ae-44a6-a9f7-032e7aa0265d/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"ancientAndClassicalTheatre , Ancient and classical theatre , experimentalDramaPerformance , Experimental drama performance , stagecraftTheatreSpaceAndSites , Stagecraft, theatre space and sites , avantGardeExperimentalFilm , Avant Garde/Experimental film , filmmakingAndProduction , Filmmaking and production , fantasyFilms , Fantasy films , ancientHistoryAndArchaeology , Ancient history and archaeology , literaryClassics , Literary classics , mythologyAndFolklore , Mythology and Folklore , art , Art , drama , Drama , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , mythsAndLegends , Myths and legends , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , croatian , Croatian , origin_australia , Australia , video , Video , history , History , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , genres , Genres , origin_oceania , Oceania , literature , Literature , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":2011,"publisher":"Artemis Projects PTY","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"APR-Penelope","facet":["ancientAndClassicalTheatre","ancientHistoryAndArchaeology","art","artsAndLiterature","avantGardeExperimentalFilm","croatian","drama","experimentalDramaPerformance","fantasyFilms","filmAndCinema","filmmakingAndProduction","genres","history","literaryClassics","literature","made_20002009","made_2000Present","mythologyAndFolklore","mythsAndLegends","origin_australia","origin_oceania","stagecraftTheatreSpaceAndSites","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Ben Ferris~Artemis Projects PTY"}