Minami-no-Tori: Film
Minami-Torishima (Southern Bird Island) is a tiny Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean where scientists believe an seemingly endless supply of rare metals lies buried in the seabed. All the metals required for smartphones, wind turbines, Teslas, and computers. These rare-earth elements (REEs) are the holy grail of the modern age. Yet they lie at great depths, and mining them would have a catastrophic impact on the largest ecosystem on Earth.
Minami-no-tori (Southern Bird) tells the story of the Prince with a Thousand Names and Faces, searching for the Pearl of Oblivion and the Pearl of Memory. Blinded by greed, he strikes a hole in the ocean floor, causing all the water to drain away and life on Earth to vanish. All that remains is the rustling of the wind.
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What does mermaid taste like?
How deep would you dive?
How low would you sink?
How far would you fall?
To get what you want
The film is the result of a year-long collaboration between the Rosa Ensemble and the Netherlands Chamber Choir NXT. Under the direction of Daniel Cross, 8 singers worked to bring the story of Minami-no-tori to the stage, using Andriana Minou’s beautiful text. They learned to work with tape recorders, memorized all the music, and mastered the entire mise-en-scène. This performance formed the basis of the film. Actress Gaite Jansen took on the role of the narrator, and VHS tape became the visual counterpart to the audio tapes.
Credits
Gaite Jansen, Ishtar Bakhtali, Sean Bell, Iolaysa Braga Tavares, Maria Eichle, Maryana Golovchenko, Olga Grammatikopoulou, Anne van Helteren, Emily Pahlawan, Alba Roorda Martinez
Music:
Daniel Cross
Libretto:
Andriana Minou
1st Unit:
1st camera - Sami El Hassani
2nd camera - Rosa Krastel
1st AC - Tristan Adelaar
Gaffer - Erwin Smit
Bestboy - Simon Ruesink
light assistant - Coral Reyneveld
DMX programmer - Rachid Challaoui
Clapper 2nd camera assistent - Paula Hankes
2nd Unit
1st camera - Marc de Meijer
1st AC - Eli van Cleef
2nd camera - Stef van Wijk
3rd camera - Nini Mathilde
Gaffer - Daan de Boer
Best Girl - Maxime Pottuit
Light assistant - Sil Weel & Tigo Linkenkær-Hansen
Drone cam - Tim van Vliet
2nd assistant - Ivo Paermentier
Best Girl - Maxime Pottuit
Light assistant - Sil Weel & Tigo Linkenkær-Hansen
Drone cam - Tim van Vliet
2nd assistant - Ivo Paermentier
Minami-Torishima (Southern Bird Island) is a tiny Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean where scientists believe an seemingly endless supply of rare metals lies buried in the seabed. All the metals required for smartphones, wind turbines, Teslas, and computers. These rare-earth elements (REEs) are the holy grail of the modern age. Yet they lie at great depths, and mining them would have a catastrophic impact on the largest ecosystem on Earth.
Minami-no-tori (Southern Bird) tells the story of the Prince with a Thousand Names and Faces, searching for the Pearl of Oblivion and the Pearl of Memory. Blinded by greed, he strikes a hole in the ocean floor, causing all the water to drain away and life on Earth to vanish. All that remains is the rustling of the wind.
What does mermaid taste like?
How deep would you dive?
How low would you sink?
How far would you fall?
To get what you want
The film is the result of a year-long collaboration between the Rosa Ensemble and the Netherlands Chamber Choir NXT. Under the direction of Daniel Cross, 8 singers worked to bring the story of Minami-no-tori to the stage, using Andriana Minou’s beautiful text. They learned to work with tape recorders, memorized all the music, and mastered the entire mise-en-scène. This performance formed the basis of the film. Actress Gaite Jansen took on the role of the narrator, and VHS tape became the visual counterpart to the audio tapes.
Credits
Gaite Jansen, Ishtar Bakhtali, Sean Bell, Iolaysa Braga Tavares, Maria Eichle, Maryana Golovchenko, Olga Grammatikopoulou, Anne van Helteren, Emily Pahlawan, Alba Roorda Martinez
Music:
Daniel Cross
Libretto:
Andriana Minou
1st Unit:
1st camera - Sami El Hassani
2nd camera - Rosa Krastel
1st AC - Tristan Adelaar
Gaffer - Erwin Smit
Bestboy - Simon Ruesink
light assistant - Coral Reyneveld
DMX programmer - Rachid Challaoui
Clapper 2nd camera assistent - Paula Hankes
2nd Unit
1st camera - Marc de Meijer
1st AC - Eli van Cleef
2nd camera - Stef van Wijk
3rd camera - Nini Mathilde
Gaffer - Daan de Boer
Best Girl - Maxime Pottuit
Light assistant - Sil Weel & Tigo Linkenkær-Hansen
Drone cam - Tim van Vliet
2nd assistant - Ivo Paermentier
Best Girl - Maxime Pottuit
Light assistant - Sil Weel & Tigo Linkenkær-Hansen
Drone cam - Tim van Vliet
2nd assistant - Ivo Paermentier
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