Five Bells.

Five Bells, produc according to Roar Film, Australia (Tel:03-6224-9866 or e-mail roarfilm@trump.net.au). Produc by means of the two-person collaborative team of Roar Film, Five Bells is a gorgeously illustrated multi-textual exploration of the eponymous 1937 metrical composition by Australian Kenneth Slessor. In the metrical composition a lifetime occurs in the mind of the drowning main character as five ship bells ring in the city harbor. Occasioned on the tragic death in 1927 of Slessor's young co-worker, newspaper illustrator Joe Lynch the metrical composition has been an enduring cultural marker for Australians and has been vot "Australia's Favorite Poem"

The CD-ROM act upons smoothly from the complex sepia-toned image of a racketed desk in a dark attic that be subservient tos as a visually-based hyper-linked site map to a number of multi-media explorations of the piece of poetry its author and its make subordinate These include a 15-minute live film realization of Lynch's last hours and ultimate demise with a voice-over of the metrical composition to the original newspaper account of Lynch's drowning to music the one and the other created for this project and taken from that era. It also includes audio tracks of other Slessor metrical compositions read by several well-known contemporary authors as well as a comprehensive bibliography of the two Slessor's work and critical writings about it. This collaborative throw includes input from graphic artists, filmmakers, writers and musicians. Five Bells is a compounded yet easily-navigated arid poetic tribute to the young life misspent that inspired a work that has endur for more than six decades.

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