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Tal Rosner : GNR Million ReWork

A cornerstone of the GNR Million opening ceremony in 2014 was the unique collaboration between BAFTA-winning artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner and Ivor Novello Award winning composer Dan Jones. A specially commissioned film and score which celebrated the past, the present and the future ingenuity in the North East and was spectacularly mapped onto Sage Gateshead. On the night the enormous projections and the rousing score provided a breathtaking backdrop for And Let Us Run, the inspiring poetic script written by acclaimed author David Almond especially for the event.

Now, for 2015, Tal Rosner and Dan Jones have revisited their original composition and animations and in doing so have created GNR Million Re:Work, something more intimate, something more intense, something that brings the audience closer to the essence of the work. The existence of Tal’s film and Dan’s music are entirely dependent on one another, as one ebbs as does the other flow, the visual and the aural complementing and invigorating each other, so intertwined are the two that it would be impossible to present one without its partner.