Moon Viewing with Alice Oswald: A Riddle - The Film

Supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme. In collaboration with the English Faculty as part of the Professor of Poetry lecture series, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) and DANSOX. This film was made during lockdown to accompany a postal poetry performance in celebration of the Advent Full Moon, led by Alice Oswald. 500 copies of a poem have been posted around the world with instructions not to open it before midnight on the 30th November 2020.

For full information on the project please visit: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/postal-poetry-performance #postalpoetryperformance

Credits

A Riddle By Alice Oswald

Letter Card Design

Kevin Mount

https://www.theletterpress.org/

Composed for Dance by Joseph Kay https://www.instagram.com/jsphkay/ https://www.jsphkay.co.uk/

Choreography and performance Estela Merlos https://www.instagram.com/_estela_merlos_/

https://www.estelamerlos.com/

Thomasin Gülgeç https://www.instagram.com/thomgulgec/?hl=en

https://www.thomasingulgec.com/

Screendance Direction

Rocio Chacon

https://www.instagram.com/ro.ci.cha/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/rocio_chacon_studio/

http://rociochacon.com/ Lighting design Satu Streatfield Camera Rocio Chacon

Production Assistant

Kundai Munetsi

You can read more about the Moon Viewing project here. 

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the
future  Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.