A CYCLE OF SIX FILMS AND SIX SONGS

Rosetta Requiem is an online cycle of films and songs made in collaborations between people living with terminal illness and established film makers and composers.  The project has been commissioned by Culture Online through the Department of Culture Media and Sport.

Traditionally, a requiem is a choral expression of The Passion - a religious exploration of suffering, death, grief, and acceptance.  But composers have often interpreted these themes loosely. Our hospice users, composers, and film makers continue in this tradition by bringing their own interpretations to the requiem.

Greenwich & Bexley are contributing one film and several songs to the Rosetta Requiem, which will go live online July 2005.  The film is called Blindspot and was made by director Emily Young with Bernard and Valerie Connell.  The songs are being written in a collaboration between the Wednesday Group at the hospice and contemporary composer Orlando Gough.
Here are the lyrics Laugh Again and 24/7

We are also writing a song with John Dair who attends Monday day care in Shornells. In John’s Song John describes with great feeling what it’s like when your partner loses some mental faculties and you lose physical faculties.