Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun, stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying, about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work. Using monochrome, sometimes abstract images (in yellow, blue, red and green), close-ups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people (sometimes accelerated or decelerated, sometimes in black-and-white), he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Dun's reflective music.
Genre: Documentary
Stars:
Crew: Frank Scheffer (Producer), Pay-Uun Hiu (Script), Frank Scheffer (Director), Melle van Essen (Director of Photography)
Country: Netherlands
Language: 普通话, English
Studio: Allegri Film
Runtime: 90 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 29, 2005
IMDb: 10
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