Bait - original live score & performance
A new live original score for BAFTA winning film Bait which blends synth loops, violin drones and live vocals. Performed at the BFI, Southbank with Georgia Ellery (who also plays Katie in the film) on violin and additional vocals.
“What Gwenno did was take the film in ways that I wasn’t able to take it in. Not just technically or musically but thematically. I think she really transformed Martin at times into a mythical godlike figure. There are a couple of sequences in the film where he’s walking in slow motion which, in my version of the mix, has just got footsteps on it. Albeit very abstract and heightened footsteps, but she was able to add triumphant drone sounds which created this mythical figure. This meant that when he did fall down either ethically or morally that the fall was even bigger. She also mythologised the physical processes of the fishing, which I communicated in the film in a more documentarian way. She turned them into something that was almost like a spiritual moment, which I loved. There were moments where I almost felt like standing up out of my seat, not to applaud, just through a physical reaction to the film.” - Bait director Mark Jenkin in conversation with directorsnotes.com.
photo by Ash Knotek