HIS DARK MATERIALS - Video Projections
director - Nicholas Hytner
set design - Giles Cadle
premiere - National Theatre, London
format - Digital for projection
length - 03:13
As the National Theatre's production of Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials tells the story of Lyra and Will’s journey of spiritual enlightenment - a journey that takes them through parallel worlds, the Land of the Dead and ultimately to the Republic of Heaven.
THE GRAY CiRCLE created the knife cuts that took Lyra and Will from one world to another, the fractured skies of the doomed Cittagaze and the Black Waters of the Land of the Dead.
"There are as many worlds as there are possibilities. I toss a coin. It comes down heads. But in another world, it comes down tails. Every time that a choice is made, or a chance is missed, or a fork in a road is taken... a world is born for each of the other things that might have happened. And there, they do."
See what the press said...
"The use of video and back projection makes the move between worlds, quite magical."
- The Sunday Times, Robert Hewison, 04 January 2004 more...
"Videos slice across the stage to show one world to characters waiting to cross from another. There are dark green Arctic skies (Pullman must have done marvels for the non-tropical tourist trade), huge, midnight-blue, starry heavens scattered with stars."
- The Observer, Susannah Clapp, 11 January 2004 more...
"...revolving, multilevel sets, accented by video projections and computer graphics are remarkably efficient..."
- NY Times, Ben Brantley, 25 January 2004 more...
"...effects that would impress an audience who had just left that other trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings".
- Jewish Chronicle, John Nathan, 16 January 2004
