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RICHARD PHILPOTT

FILMS 2024 -

filmography

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ARTWORKS 1973 -1992
ARTWORKS 2014 - 2020

ARTWORKS 2021 - 2022
ARTWORKS 2023 -
FILMS 1973 -1992
FILMS 2019 - 2020
FILMS 2021 - 2023 (shorts)
FILMS 2021 - 2024 ("aye" series)
FILMS 2024 -
PUBLICATIONS




 

FugaFilm

(UK 2024, 4k digital,
5 minutes)

 

SHORT
RELEASED May 2024




"I had experienced
a moment of genuine rapture,
not from some idea of importance,
but from a musty smell."
- Marcel Proust

 

 



"wisdom rises from a bad smell"
- Satori Ubu

 

Now AGAIN

(UK 2024-26, 4k digital,
333 minutes - TBC)

Music:
Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Debusy
Franck
Hahn
Janacek
Kancheli
Liszt
Mompu
Pachelbel
Saint-Saens
Schubert
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Vierne
Wagner

with deep gratitude to inspirational pianists
     Fanny Azzuro
     Clelia Iruzun

for their musical support and permissions.

 

FEATURE / series
for RELEASE September 2026

preludes & fugues & reminscences from
"Remembrance of Things Past"
by Marcel Proust

PART ONE (55 minutes):
     Swann's Way
     Within a Budding Grove
PART TWO (c 125 minutes):
     The Guernantes Way
     Sodon and Gomorrah
PART THREE (c 110 minutes):
     The Captive
     The Fugitive
PART FOUR (c 100 minutes):
     Time Regained

How could an Englishman have the temerity to translate or interpret a French classic?
The translation into English is considered the greatest translation between languages ever made.
This translation deeply embraces from the heart the novel vehicle that Proust offers to us all, his fellow travellers.




We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the interval. It was quite narrow, this interval, this fault that I had had to cross.
- Marcel Proust

"The first complete filmic interpretation of Proust's entire novel, Philpott stretches narrative form into rich and varied experimental territories, providing a visual feast, using AI and unique digital production techniques, to reveal the vast panoramic structure of Proust's great masterwork and provide a 21st century foundation for a timeless 20th century epic."

A new form of story-telling for a modern age.
Closer to documentary invention, rejecting costume drama.
Closer to art than stage.
Writing in pictures and music.

"I hope to provide new and direct access to Proust's intimate investigation of his mind, to be placed alongside the revelations of Einstein and Freud, in understanding our eternal world and a human's place in it."

By conincidence, Marcel Proust's formative writing was in his great admiration for John Ruskin, two of whose books he translated into French, in preparation for "A la Recherche.."
Philpott studied at the Art School that Ruskin founded in the University of Oxford.
Perhaps this film is a fitting tribute to both masters.

Proust could no more speak English than I can French. :)


       
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