ABOUT

Lear Settings is a Hull Sinfonietta/Creative Partnerships film, co-produced with the University of Hull, Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College and the Northern Film School. It attracted external public funding (£24786 from Arts Council England Yorkshire Lottery Fund [01/2006-03/2009]), much of it under an earlier title - A Jumbly Girl.

Alastair Borthwick’s The Jumblies and Dong provides the music for the film. The music profoundly influenced the screenplay, images, creation of additional soundtrack material and the film’s presentation. The film project was initially part of an engagement strategy to increase the dissemination and impact of Borthwick’s music, but it soon developed into a research project in its own right and has had numerous impacts, on schools, communities, and professionals. These impacts have been articulated in a report for REF2014.

The film is used to articulate aspects of love, loss, memory, time, difference and fragmentation. It achieves this in numerous ways, including by referencing the work of directors Polanski, Tarr, Ozon, Wong Kar-Wai and Tarkovsky.

“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”

– Andrei Tarkovsky