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The UK premiere of NYman with a Movie Camera, a feature film by Michael Nyman, screened with a live performance of his score by the Michael Nyman Band.
 
The film presents a shot-by-shot reconstruction of Dziga Vertov's  iconic film, Man with a Movie Camera, replacing the original sequences with footage from Michael Nyman's own film archives shot over the last two decades.
 
Deeply rooted in Vertov’s original ideas concerned with “the perception of truth" and with the documentation of “life caught unawares”, Nyman‘s film attempts to capture the essence of our contemporary times through the lens of his own camera, creating a multi-sensory experience of time as it occurs and of life as it happens. The footage is recorded by first hand observation and delivers an unscripted visual transcription of every-day life as recently documented by the composer in a collection of over 50 cinematographic works.
 
Both films share the same score, originally composed by Nyman in 2003 for Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera and available as BFI video.
 

“David McAlmont is one of British pop's most precious hidden treasures. His voice is a sublime and miraculous thing, able to convey unimaginable reserves of vulnerability and inner strength in one wavering syllable. Michael Nyman is less in need of an introduction, being probably the country's most celebrated living composer. The idea of putting them together as a duo is almost too good to be true: it cannot, surely, live up to its potential. Except that it does. There will be those who find the whole enterprise dauntingly arty, but once heard, you'll want never want to live without it.” The Telegraph