Thursday's Fictions
The virtual world of Thursday’s Fictions is a surreal dance fantasy film.
Thursday’s Fictions has the raw intensity, epic dimensions and fantastical imagery of legend or myth. Director/choreographer Richard James Allen has created a rich world filled with intriguing ideas and stunning imagery.
Thursday’s Fictions follows the plight of seven characters as they each come into contact with the mysterious trunk Thursday has left in their care. They grapple with the passion, beauty, dreams and nightmares which it contains, embarking on a magical journey encompassing sumptuous dance, original orchestral music and lavish design. It is a film whose images, sounds and ideas will resound far longer than the seven days its story traces.
The project has been screened on ABC-TV and in Second Life.
http://lamp.edu.au/2007/07/02/project-thursdays-fiction/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvl9RrBLHEM
Team lead - Richard James Allen
Richard James Allen, co-artistic director with Karen Pearlman of The Physical TV Company, has combined a unique international career as a writer, filmmaker, choreographer and performer, with work screened, broadcast, published, or performed in thirty countries, and nominated for or winning prizes in filmmaking, screenwriting, playwriting, poetry and dance. With the publication of his ninth book, The Kamikaze Mind, the receipt of the 2006 UTS Chancellor’s Award for Best PhD Thesis, and the release of his multi-award-winning film adaptation of his last book, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award-nominated Thursday’s Fictions, the jigsaw pieces of a remarkable and arresting artistic vision have come together into an energetic expression of his inherently cross-platform thinking. For more information on Richard’s work, please visit the following websites: The Physical TV Company (www.physicaltv.com.au), The Kamikaze Mind (www.thekamikazemind.com), and Thursday’s Fictions (www.thursdaysfictions.com).