Film
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Blue Giant – Review
The visceral emotion of a live performance in anime form.
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Nina Conti’s ’10 Holes’ is my favourite unhinged minute of comedic vulgarity this year
Yes, this is my most listened to song this week.
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Caroline Rose releases short film to support her album ‘The Art of Forgetting’
Weaving music videos into their own artistic short film
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Björk to narrate Fungi: Web of Life – coming January ’24
IMAX theatres will showcase the hidden world of fungi on the big screens across 2024.
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Visitors – Audio Visual Film Review
From the minds of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass, Visitors is the most recent collaboration of the duo following on from the Qatsi trilogy and Reggio’s…
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Manu Delago to release new album and film
An expedition to create music on The Alps
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Film Review: Tawai
Thought provoking exploration of cause and effect
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Inspirations of Music: Philip Glass
On scoring one of my all time favourite films
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PJ Harvey and Harry Escott collaborate for music score track
Sorrowful beauty from the fields of love
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Imogen Heap’s new song is paired with Dolby animation short
A cute mini film and a stonking new track
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Audio Visual Review: Rasa Yatra
An audio visual delve into the heart of India
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Stream music documentary “The Last Song Before the War” on NPR
A musical documentary
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“The Players Score – A Video Game Music Documentary” Kickstarter Goes Live!
A VGM documentary kickstarter!!!
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Film Review: Naqoyqatsi
The third in the Qatsi trilogy is likely to divide everyone's opinion
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Old VH1 Programme of Behind the Movie “Dancer In The Dark”
A fantastic movie and some good interview times with Bjork herself.
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Audio/Visual Film Review: “Life In A Day”
Life In A Day comes from a fantastic concept. YouTube back in 2010 asked everyone to film their day on July 24th and upload their…
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Film Review: Babies
Slightly different from our usual audio/visual non narrative films HPM reviews, Babies actually follows four humans during their first few months of birth. We see…
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Film Review: Samsara
Samsara, the latest audio visual piece of cinema from Ron Fricke & Co is a delightful feast for the eyes and ears. Following in very…
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Film Review: Timescapes
Timescapes is a fantastic audio-visual movie from Tow Lowe. It’s also the first movie to be sold as a 4K download file. Following very much…
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Samara Movie Trailer
Possibly the film I’m most excited for in 2012 Samsara appears to arriving in the UK late summer time. I cannot wait.
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Samsara Premier’s Tomorrow!
The fantastic people that made Baraka and were involved in Chronos and the Qatsi series are having their new film Samsara premier tomorrow in Toronto,…
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Audio Visual Film: “Zen” by Fabian Enzinger
A lovely new audio-visual film entitled “Zen” by Fabian Enzinger is now available to watch in full on YouTube. The movie itself was shot in…
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Our Daily Bread – Film Review
Our Daily Bread is one of the most abstract audio/visual films I’ve seen to date and yet it ones of the most relevant of them…
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Film Trailer: Microcosmos
Recently reviewed, here’s a more visual look at the insectiod film Microcosmos
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Film Trailer: Baraka
Trailer to the Audio Visual movie phenomena Baraka, released in 1992.
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Microcosmos – Film Review
As HPM will now also have a small section dedicated to Audio/Visual films such as the wonderful qatsi trilogy, Baraka and Chronos, I felt it’s…
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Film Trailer: Chronos
Ron Frickie’s gem
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Film Trailer: Naqoyqatsi
The final in the qatsi trilogy.
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Film Trailer: Powaqqatsi
Sadly the only YouTube trailer has its audio removed (silly, silly companies) and so this fan made one will have to do!
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Koyannisqatsi Trailer
While we’re having an audio DVD week here at Higher Plain Music, I thought actually posting the trailers to the films I’ve been reviewing might…
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Film Review: Powaqqatsi
Powaqqatsi is the second of the qatsi trilogy and revolves pretty much around its tagline “Life in Transformation”. It once again follows the visions of…
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Film Review: Koyaanisqatsi
Koyaanisqatsi is the first of a trilogy of -qatsi movies (qatsi meaning life in another language) and is an audio/visual treat. With all these films,…
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“Chronos” Film Review
“Chronos” was Ron Frickie’s directorial debut before he made Baraka. The film is an audio/visual movie that is almost entirely done in time lapse photography.…
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Baraka Review
Something slightly different, Baraka was released in 1992 as something of a lardmark film. Baraka is a visual/audio experience quite unlike anything I’ve really come…
