Film Programme
Soaring Roaring Diving
animation , Tue, 13:00
New Zealand, 2008, 6 min
Director: Miriam Harris
Synopsis: Virginia Woolf wrote the words "soaring, roaring, diving..." in a letter where she was ruminating upon the joys and upheavals in life. In this mixed-media animated film, the animator and composer, having both lost their sisters, who were still young, to terminal illnesses, explore themes of journeying, childhood memories, summer in the South Pacific, swimming and diving as metaphors, working through grief, and the proverbial glass half-full or half-empty question.
Director: Miriam Harris
An artist and animator from New Zealand. She completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Animation at Sheridan College, Toronto, in 2002, and her graduating film, Mouskouri & A Cabbage Tree was screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Zagreb Animation Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has composed sound and music for a number of performances in Toronto and Canada, as well as international projects. Working in diverse media, her output ranges from chamber music to multimedia installations, dance, music, theatre, opera and symphonic works.
