BODY SONG International Documentary Competition

Visually stunning and mesmerizing, BODYSONG is cinematic poetry, a rapture of energy and release.

Using images taken from all around the world over the last 100 years of cinema, depicting every possible aspect of the human life from microscopic, medical, sexual, sensual, including portraits and newsreels from birth to death, that are then cut together to create a haunting and highly emotional film, with peaks of ecstasy and troughs of despair. Accompanying the film, on their Web site every shot in the movie is chronicled to encourage the viewer to discover the hundreds of unique stories that make up BODYSONG. The Web site allows viewers access to a 3-D space to uncover the story behind every shot in the film.

Fueled by the hypnotic score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, director Simon Pummell deftly weaves the images into a seamless vision of the archetypal human life. Faced with telling a story without cinematic conventions or relying on dialogue and voice-over, Pummell and BODYSONG thrive in an intoxicating and exhilarating free-fall structure.