Film
Tea
2005 · 1h 30m · Documentary
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Overview
Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun, stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying, about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work. Using monochrome, sometimes abstract images (in yellow, blue, red and green), close-ups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people (sometimes accelerated or decelerated, sometimes in black-and-white), he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Dun's reflective music.
Crew
- Frank SchefferProducer · Director
- Melle van EssenDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- January 29, 2005
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
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