Palmerama
Tony Palmer film day
SPACE MOVIE (dir Tony Palmer / soundtrack Mike Oldfield 1979)
TANGERINE DREAM LIVE AT COVENTRY CATHEDRAL (Dir. Tony Palmer, 1975)
200 MOTELS (Dir. Frank Zappa & Tony Palmer, 1971)
Schedule:
1pm
Introduction by SPACE curator Paul Pieroni followed by:
SPACE MOVIE (dir Tony Palmer / soundtrack Mike Oldfield 1979)
Made in 1979 at the request of NASA to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the moon landings. NASA and The United States National Archive made all the footage (which is now famous the world around) available for the very first time, including never before seen film of the lunar landscape, life aboard the spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, Mars, Venus and beyond. Even more importantly, NASA released the extraordinary (and scary) soundtracks of the all the conversations between the astronauts and ground control in Houston.
THE SPACE MOVIE's soundtrack is written, arranged and performed by MIKE OLDFIELD using extracts from his ground-breaking symphonic tone-poems such as ‘Tubular Bells’ and 'Hergest Ridge‘.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Movie
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2.30pm
TANGERINE DREAM LIVE AT COVENTRY CATHEDRAL (Dir. Tony Palmer, 1975)
In December 1974 Tangerine Dream were invited to play in the grand setting of Rheims Cathedral, a move certainly seen at the time as groundbreaking. Because of this, they were then invited to perform in the cathedrals of York, Liverpool and Coventry. The tour attracted unprecedented coverage in the media, especially at Coventry Cathedral, an iconic building that had risen out of the ruins of the old cathedral bombed by the Germans in 1940. The concert by Tangerine Dream (after all, a German band) was viewed as a celebration of peace and reconciliation.
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3pm
200 MOTELS (Dir. Frank Zappa & Tony Palmer, 1971)
The Low production values, nebulous plot and frenetic schedule of 200 Motels (co-directed by Zappa and Palmer) contribute to the overall insanity which the film attempted to evoke. Although the film's main theme is "life on the road" for a touring rock musician in the late twentieth century, it makes broader comments about the surreal state of the political and cultural life of America and the world during that time. The film's creative talents include the Mothers of Invention and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the actor Theodore Bikel, and rock-stars Ringo Starr (playing Larry the Dwarf and Frank Zappa) and The Who's drummer, Keith Moon (in drag, playing a nun).
