David Lang & Bill Morrison / Ensemble Contemporaneous – darker

Film with Live Score / Music

Live film score performed by Ensemble Contemporaneous

David Lang and Bill Morrison have collaborated for nearly 25 years and darker is their tenth collaboration.

Lang and Morrison drew inspiration from a minimal score to create a film that, like the music, can exist both before and under the viewer’s eyelids: a slowly, lilting depiction of the sublime, where actors, dancers and acrobats reappear and then disappear back into a bubbling morass of time.

In many ways darker is more like an object than a piece of music. An extreme exploration of emotional restraint, darker is both highly detailed and relentlessly restrained, requiring an almost superhuman focus in order to keep it moving, inexorably, towards its end. –David Lang

“With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master.” –The New Yorker