NEWS January 2009

Recent Film Festival Screenings

‘San Francisco Redux No. 1’ has been screened as part of the Belfort Film Festival, France, November 23rd - 30th, as well as Film Mutations, Zagreb, Croatia, November 30th - Dec. 5th.

We are also delighted to announce that, with the support of the British Council, ‘The Noon Gun’ has had its Pakistani premiere as part of the World Performing Arts Festival, November 13th - 23rd, in Lahore, Pakistan.

The original, eponymously titled 'EQUA' album, originally released in 1996, is at last available through iTunes.

For those of you who are new to this work, please find more information here.

The album includes the bonus remix of 'Departure - Durban Poison Mix' by Tricky

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'San Francisco' and 'San Francisco:Redux No.1' have been screened at the prestigious Lussas Doc Film Festival 'Etats Generaux du Film Documentaire' in France on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st August as part of the programme 'On the Subject of Regrettable Searching - Body to Body, the Filmed Body' .

Sadia and Stephen are delighted to announce the world premiere of four new short films on Friday June 27th at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

The films form part of the Anthony Stern retrospective to which they have also contributed additional production, filming, editing, scoring and post-production.

La Cinémathèque is situated in Paris, and is housed in a building designed by Frank Gehry. It is home to the largest film archive in the world and has been described by Martin Scorcese as the "spiritual home of filmmakers worldwide".

In 2008 we released the initial material from the . These projects were discovered, developed and produced by Sadia, and recorded for Chimera. Newly mastered for digital release by Stephen, they are now being made available for the first time.

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"We'd like to laugh, but frankly we're too scared" - NME

Recorded in 1996, Chimera Arts is proud to present the first and (to date) only album by Walk On Water. Featuring such tracks as 'Vulture', 'Matinee' and 'Nothing', 'Pets' is the definitive statement from one of the greatest underground bands of all time.

From psychedelic folk, to bluegrass, rockabilly and ska, The Lost T-Shirts of Atlantis engage us with tales of crop circles, love, nostalgia, and their catchy - and poignant - concerns for the future of the planet. Playing home-made instruments, this wonderful album,'The Day Is Yours', was recorded and mixed in a single day (with time off for tea) at Metropolis Studios in London in 1992. 

'The Noon Gun' is an impressionistic documentary based on footage shot in Afghanistan in 1971 by the avant-garde film maker and cinematographer Anthony Stern. Now available for the first time, Chimera Arts is pleased to announce the release of 'The Noon Gun' (OST), by the world fusion musicians EQUA (Tayler/Sadia)

Originally produced to accompany the installation work 'A Language of Butterfly Wings', first exhibited at Westbourne Studios, Notting Hill, London in 2002, this 56 minute ambient 'single track' by Sadia develops over 7 movements: 'Overture: Breathe', 'In The Temple', 'Cry For More', 'In The Garden', 'Through The Darkness', 'Flight' and 'Finale: Find Your Place'. 

Stephen spent 2007 recording and mixing in Italy, India and the US. In India he had the pleasure of recording some of India's top musicians at Yash Raj Film Studios in Mumbai, including Louiz Banks, Sheldon Shaun D'Silva, Niladri Kumar, and percussion maestro Shivamani, for an album by Mongolian singer-songwriter Nominjin. 

Stephen began 2008 by mixing an album at his studio in Wiltshire for singer-songwriter Clark Datchler, and remastering the titles for the Chimera Archives digital releases as well. 

In September 2008 he mixed the 3 CD set of Howard Jones' 25th Anniversary concert, recorded at the indigO2 in London.

Recently he has been working with Rupert Hine on the new Nolwenn Leroy album.

EQUA is being re-released on iTunes by Universal Music, and is currently available at the Australian iTunes Store.

Chimera Arts has opened its film production studio based at Maxco Creative in Sydney, Australia.

Sadia is developing Chimera's first feature film, along with Stephen Tayler and Adam Yazxhi of Maxco.

'The Noon Gun' was screened by Tolo TV, the most popular liberal TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was also screened by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (the only service to broadcast inside the Bhutanese border) on July 26, 27 and 28, 2006.

It was shortlisted, along with 6 other films, for The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in London. Extracts from the entries were screened at the Award Ceremony held in the David Lean Room of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Piccadilly, London on the afternoon of Sunday 23rd April 2006.

.'The Noon Gun' had its world premiere at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival in 2004. It played to a packed theatre and was a resounding success. It was also shown at the 'Bite The Mango' Film Festival at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, September 2004. In 2005 it featured as part of 'Films From The South' Festival in Oslo, Norway.

'The Noon Gun' Quicktime trailer

We've put up some music clips from our collected works both new and old, which we will continue to add to from time to time...watch out for a page of recommendations and links to our favourite things, like the photography magazine dayfour, coming soon...

Stephen had a number one album in Italy with Sony/BMG recording artist Renato Zero . Stephen recorded and mixed this project in stereo and 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital) and it has also been released on the new DualDisc format (regular CD on one side and DVD content on the other).

Stephen has finished mixing the soundtrack for the next Renato live concert DVD, filmed at the Forum, Milan, due soon.

We've discovered that the Sydney Dance Company has two works in their permanent repertoire ('Unwitting Sight' & 'Cradle Song') choreographed to music by S Sadia / S Tayler (EQUA). Here are a couple of stills taken from a DVD of a performance of 'Cradle Song', recently received from Australia

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Sadia is working on two new installation pieces, 'Twelve Short Films About Living and Dying', for which she has been shooting in Cambodia, as well as the second installment of the 'Memory of Water' trilogy.

The film of Howard Jones 20th Anniversary Concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire, produced, directed and edited by Sadia, had its premiere in London in 2005.

The PAL DVD has been released in the UK, Europe, and Australia. The NTSC version has been released in Japan and the USA. The DVD features almost 3 hours of performance, plus over 90 minutes of interviews and extras. For more information visit howardjones.com

'the Memory of Water', a video installation by S Sadia, has been acquired by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) to form part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international artists.-- It featured in the show 'PROOF: The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes', which ran until 13th February 2005. For more information, click on link above....

PROOF/ACMI QuickTime movie