WA Museum Boola Bardip is a place to share Western Australia’s many stories. Our people, our places and our role in the world.
To celebrate the opening of the Museum with interstate and international audiences unable to travel, WA Museum Boola Bardip has collaborated with Perth Festival to produce films that showcase creative works inspired by and filmed in the stunning new Museum.
More than 100 people from Western Australia’s creative industries were employed to work on these films that highlight Western Australia’s world-class artistic talent and the Museum's stunning heritage-listed buildings and contemporary spaces.
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“THE WILD GEESE” (AFTER “CATALPA”)
Director: David Vincent Smith
Cinematographer: Lewis Potts
Producers: Tania Chambers, Clint Logan
Composer: Iain Grandage
Performers: Perth Symphony Orchestra
Violins: Rachel Aquilina, Pascale Whiting, Jasmine Skinner, Brian Kruger, Julia Watson, Jasmin Parkinson-Stewart, Teresa Vinci
Violas: Kathy Potter, Alix Hamilton
Cellos: Emma Vanderwal, Catherine Tabi
Bass: Giovanni Vinci
FEATURED WA MUSEUM BOOLA BARDIP LOCATIONS
Stan Perron WA Treasures (Hackett Hall); Connections gallery.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
The Wild Geese is a driving, beautiful evocative piece of classical music that harmonises an incredible piece of Western Australian maritime history: The Catalpa Rescue 1876, an epic jail break story. We wanted our camera movement and lighting to conjure a sense of adventure and capture the energy of the story.
It was a challenge to capture cinematically Perth Symphony Orchestra, given the size of the spaces to light, but it doesn’t get any more exciting than placing an orchestra on three different levels of the Hackett Hall surrounding a giant whale skeleton.
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