Now and Then Media

VIDEO & FILM

ROCKING

ROCKING film (2022)

ROCKING is a cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tion between Con­tem­po­rary Dance and Ear­ly Music. It is an explo­ration of lamen­ta­tion, love, and loss through a fem­i­nist lens inspired by Tar­quinio Merula’s sacred lul­la­by Can­zonet­ta spir­i­tuale sopra alla nan­na. Over a repet­i­tive rock­ing bass line is a soar­ing melody depict­ing Mary med­i­tat­ing on the limbs of the Christ Child, while con­tem­plat­ing his cru­ci­fix­ion. Through move­ment, sound, and song, ROCKING is an artis­tic nar­ra­tion on the finite & the infi­nite, and on the cor­po­re­al & spiritual.

If you are a fes­ti­val, com­pe­ti­tion, or anoth­er par­ty inter­est­ed in screen­ing the film ROCKING, please con­tact us direct­ly.

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Fabulous Females on the Fringe: The Judith Project

The Judith Project was an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary months-long project that focused on musi­cal and artis­tic depic­tions of the Bib­li­cal char­ac­ter Judith, and which cul­mi­nat­ed in a video fea­tur­ing cham­ber per­for­mances of music by French Baroque com­pos­er Élis­a­beth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, paint­ings by Ital­ian Baroque com­pos­er Artemisia Gen­tileschi, and con­tem­po­rary art, pho­tog­ra­phy, and dra­ma scenes cre­at­ed by stu­dents at the Lim­er­ick Edu­cate Togeth­er Sec­ondary School.

Fabulous Females on the Fringe: Susannah and the Elders

This video fea­tures a cham­ber music per­for­mance of Susanne, a can­ta­ta by French Baroque com­pos­er Élis­a­beth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Susan­na (also known as Susan­na and the Elders) is a Sec­ond Tem­ple sto­ry about a right­eous Hebrew woman named Susan­na who is wrong­ly accused of adul­tery by two dis­hon­est, lech­er­ous men who sex­u­al­ly harass and threat­en her while she is bathing in her back gar­den. Sen­tenced to death for her sup­posed adul­tery, through cross-exam­i­na­tion of the two men, Daniel, draw­ing upon laws in the Torah about jus­tice, shows that the men bore false wit­ness against her, and in doing so Daniel proves Susanna’s inno­cence, saves her life and restores her good reputation.

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WAVE~LINKS

WAVE~LINKS is a new video series explor­ing ear­ly music and arti­san­ry. As cura­tors of WAVE~LINKS, Yonit Kosovske & Vlad Smishkewych invite mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary musi­cians into con­ver­sa­tion about His­tor­i­cal Per­for­mance Prac­tice, while seek­ing con­nec­tions with their artis­tic (and some­times culi­nary) prac­tices out­side of music. Thus far, the videos have fea­tured Baroque vio­lin & paint­ing, Baroque vio­lin & glass arts, vio­la da gam­ba & mul­ti-media art, tra­ver­so & pho­tog­ra­phy, voice & weav­ing, voice & knit­ting, cor­net­to & fer­men­ta­tion, Medieval vielle and illus­tra­tion, build­ing vio­ls & pot­tery, harp­si­chord build­ing & paint­ing, Renais­sance dance & poet­ry, among oth­ers. In mak­ing WAVE~LINKS videos, Yonit and Vlad col­lab­o­rate with musi­cian-arti­sans through online and in-per­son inter­views, as well as through exten­sive writ­ten cor­re­spon­dence, to pro­duce cre­ative videos 10–15 min­utes in length. Each video is high­ly unique, indi­vid­ual, and per­son­al, but they all reflect upon, search, and delve into the lim­i­nal spaces that exist in between the mak­ing of music and art—finding shared or con­trast­ed per­for­mance prac­tices while seek­ing new ways of per­ceiv­ing their work through cross modal­i­ties and metaphor, from the poet­ic to the technical.

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Hidden Soundscapes

A series of doc­u­men­tary films that explore the hid­den land­scapes of music and sound behind events in his­to­ry, art, cul­ture, and place.

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Alive Again: The Repair and Restora­tion of a Harp­si­chord in Limerick

Lim­er­ick Ear­ly Music Fes­ti­val (LEMF) 2021 marked the debut of Hid­den Sound­scapes, a new video doc­u­men­tary series by Now and Then Media, Ltd. Hid­den Sound­scapes explores the hid­den sto­ries behind music, his­to­ry, and place. Alive Again fol­lows the sto­ry of the redis­cov­ery, repair, and restora­tion of a Klop harp­si­chord in Lim­er­ick, Ireland.