Instant Pictures, 1.Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2.Cantonese Boy 3.Swing 4.Still Life in Mobile Homes 5.Nightporter 6.Canton 7.Visions of
China, running time 30 min., 1984 V i d e o s |
Instant Pictures, 1.Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2.Cantonese Boy 3.Swing 4.Still Life in Mobile Homes 5.Nightporter 6.Canton 7.Visions of
China, running time 30 min., 1984
Oil on Canvas (live performance) 1982, 1.Overture
(Burning Bridges) 2.Sons of Pioneers 3.Gentlemen Take Polaroids 4.Swing 5.Cantonese Boy
6.Visions of China 7.Canton 8.Ghosts 9.Still Life in Mobile Homes 10.Methos of Dance
11.The Art of Parties.
Filmed at their last ever concert at Hammersmith Odeon,
London, November 1982 and on location in Thailand and Hong Kong.
running time 55 min.
Preparations for a Journey, Japanese video directed by
Yasuyuki Yamaguchi and David Sylvian. Original music written and arranged by David
Sylvian. Performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Jansen and Masami Tsuchiya. Music:
1.Preparations for a Journey 2.The Women at the Well 3.The Woman at the Well (version)
4.Pilentze Pee (traditional) 5.Kalimankon Denkon (traditional) 6.Showing the Wound (a Will
to Health)
Track 4. and 5. from Le Mystère Des Vois Bulgares.
Ambient film showing Kois (Japanese fishes) and woods
in slow-motion.
running time 42 min.
Steel Cathedrals, 
Steel Cathedrals (limited edfition 1985), short film by David Sylvian and Yasuyuki
Yamaguchi, "This short film was shot in two days of November 1984 in and around the
outskirts of Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month
and recorded over a period of three days. I later updated the material in London in an
attempt to elaborate on the theme started earlier in Japan, and to further improve the
quality of the soundtrack." David Sylvian August 1985
Music by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The piece
was reworked later. Trumpet and radio voices were added and can be found on Weatherbox.
Ambient film showing industrial plants and curling
smoke from chimneys in slow-motion.
running time 20 min.
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