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The Unfilmables

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This chapter presents a case study of , a creative practice project in which music composers are invited to create a score to accompany a film that doesn’t exist. Once the score is complete, a filmmaker is asked to provide visual accompaniment. The ‘film’ is then played in a cinema setting with either the filmmaker or the composer live mixing their work to ensure each performance is unique. The project was a collaboration with Live Cinema UK. The chapter outlines examples of unmade films that were projected to audiences in this way, including , a project that attempted to realise director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction novel . The chapter considers how creative practitioners and audiences collectively imagined and speculated what these unmade projects would have been like through a live event.

Keywords: Alejandro Jodorowsky ; Creative practice ; Film composing ; Film history ; Live cinema ; Unmade film

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The Unfilmables
Intellect , 279 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835952474_19
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References

  1. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (eds) (2017), Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury.
  2. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (2019a), Live Cinema: Walking the Tightrope Between Stage and Screen, http://www.livecinemanetwork.org/live-cinema-documentary. Accessed 3 May 2023.
  3. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (2019b), ‘The live cinema paradox: Continuity and innovation in live film broadcast, exhibition and production’, in C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham and S. Kerrigan (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 335–46.
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  8. Levi, Francesca (dir.) (2017), The Colour of Chips, UK: Live Cinema UK.
  9. Parajanov, Sergei (dir.) (1968), The Colour of Pomegranates, Armenia: Criterion.
  10. Pavich, Frank (dir.) (2013), Jodorowsky’s Dune, USA: Sony Pictures.
  11. Robinson, Jamie (aka KHOM) (2014), Gnodorowsky, UK: Cork Film Festival.
  12. Tung, Tash (dir.) (2017), The Tourist, UK: Live Cinema UK.

References

  1. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (eds) (2017), Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury.
  2. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (2019a), Live Cinema: Walking the Tightrope Between Stage and Screen, http://www.livecinemanetwork.org/live-cinema-documentary. Accessed 3 May 2023.
  3. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (2019b), ‘The live cinema paradox: Continuity and innovation in live film broadcast, exhibition and production’, in C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham and S. Kerrigan (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 335–46.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Atkinson, Sarah and Kennedy, Helen (2022), ‘The immersive cinema experience economy: The UK film industry’s third sector’, in P. McDonald (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Media Industries, London: Routledge, pp. 392–403.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Bolger, Thomas (2019), ‘The Colour of Pomegranates: Interview with Daniel Bird’, Port Magazine, https://www.port-magazine.com/film/the-colour-of-pomegranates. Accessed 30 January 2023.Brook, Lisa (2016), Live Cinema in the UK, Arts Council England.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Glazer, Jonathan (dir.) (2013), Under the Skin, USA: StudioCanal.
  7. Larraín, Pablo (dir.) (2016), Jackie, USA: Fox Searchlight.
  8. Levi, Francesca (dir.) (2017), The Colour of Chips, UK: Live Cinema UK.
  9. Parajanov, Sergei (dir.) (1968), The Colour of Pomegranates, Armenia: Criterion.
  10. Pavich, Frank (dir.) (2013), Jodorowsky’s Dune, USA: Sony Pictures.
  11. Robinson, Jamie (aka KHOM) (2014), Gnodorowsky, UK: Cork Film Festival.
  12. Tung, Tash (dir.) (2017), The Tourist, UK: Live Cinema UK.

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