Rage Park Trilogy

Rage Park Trilogy

After creating a live performance and audio-visual installation as artists in residence at Robert Wilson’s The Watermill Center, composer Stavros Gasparatos, actress-performer Serafita Grigoriadou and I, came back together to create this music video trilogy for Stavros’ new release.

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“Rage Park” is out on limited edition solid white/black vinyl, CD and digital album on May 20th via Inner Ear Records. Pre-order here.

What would happen if you let yourself lose control, break out, without any repercussions? The moment that we release previously repressed emotions is the core of the music performance “Rage Park” of composer and sound artist Stavros Gasparatos. “Rage Park” draws on pent-up rage and the need to express this rage and liberate oneself. It explores the thin line separating calmness and rage, inviting the audience to a positively liberating experience.

One year after the performance/installation at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the music of “Rage Park” is released for the first time. The album consists of 7 instrumental tracks recorded live on Venue B in July 2018 and featuring the musicians: Anastasis Mysirlis (cello), Mihalis Vrettas (violin), Pericles Timplalexis (violin), Panos Tsigos (piano, electronics), Stavros Gasparatos (piano, percussion, electronics). The album artwork is based on the work Spiked-Wire Frieze of the Greek artist Nikos Sepetzoglou.

RAGE PARK Composed by STAVROS GASPARATOS

Written, Directed & Edited by STATHIS ATHANASIOU

Starring SERAFITA GRIGORIADOU

Director of Photography OLYMPIA MYTILINAIOU G.S.C.

Production Design ERMINA APOSTOLAKI

1st A.C. NEFELI MARIDA

2nd A.C. GIORGOS MAVIDIS

Gaffer CHARIS POURNIAS

Production Assistants LAERTIS LIAGKOS, DIMITRIS TZIVISKOS, AGATHI ATHANASIOU, MARION DELIGIANNI

Hair & Make-up MARILENA GENTI

Set Photographer VICKY PSYCHOGIOU

Colorist MANTHOS SARDIS

Cello ANASTASIS MYSIRLIS

Violin MIHALIS VRETTAS, PERICLES TIMPALEXIS

Piano, Electronics PANOS TSIGOS

Piano, Guitars, Electronics STAVROS GASPARATOS

Supporting Cast NESTOR KOPSIDAS, ARKAITZ BASTERRA, SOFIA BOTELLI, VASSILIS VASSILAKIS, FIORELA SOTERIOU, DYTIS

Produced by BAKIS PRODUCTIONS

Executive Producer STATHIS ATHANASIOU

Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn – Protection

A small time travel back to the 90s, when Michel Gondry made one of the most incredible music videos ever and one that I cannot even begin to grasp how he pulled off practically and how he imagined and visualised it conceptually. My brain explodes every time I watch this. E-ve-ry-ti-me.

Massive Attack, Ghostpoet – Come Near Me

So simple. So effective. So fun. So sad.

Ed Morris from Rattling Stick directed this wonderful video, so direct all kudos and respect to him, the beautiful Arta Dobroshi, and of course, Massive Attack.

Spike Jonze – Apple, Welcome Home featuring FKA Twigs

I am a fool for practical magic in films and ads. And when Spike Jonze has an Apple level budget and FKA Twigs in front of the lens, I click on play faster than my shadow.

And then comes Danilo Para and brings us this 7 minute look into the work done behind the cameras. And it is incredible.

The following is borrowed from Adweek, mentioning credits and creatives.

we get immersed in the choreography (Jonze, choreographer Ryan Heffington and movement coach Theo Lowe all work with FKA twigs on her irresistible interplay with the apartment, and herself) and the production design (the set expanded on hydraulics to allow Jonze to shoot practically). But we also see how other elements came together, like the lighting, music and VFX (it turns out there was very little CGI).

There are other little gems in here, too, like FKA twigs auditioning for Jonze via FaceTime, and Jonze himself dancing with an office chair. (He never stops moving throughout, and you get a real sense for how physically plugged in he is to the ideas here.) We also catch a glimpse of Dunkirk cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema working with Jonze on the film—he also shot the “It’s a Tide Ad” spots for the Super Bowl (working with directors Traktor).

“It’s like a magic trick,” Heffington says of the piece in one of his interviews. It’s a delight, in the end, that the magicians decided to reveal their tricks like this—a worthy companion piece to one of the year’s most enchanting productions.