Through the Green Fuse

“Through the Green Fuse” is a winterscape, a journey of rhythms: trees, ice floes, rushing water and a solitary figure. The film is based on a madrigal by Monteverdi that is itself based on a poem by Petrarch. Music and image intermix to speak of passions, beauty and solitude. It is a film in which voices celebrate, ice imprisons, water invites and the figure journeys. “…and so that my suffering may not reach the shore/A thousand times each day I die, a thousand I am born….”