Tragedy on the Sea Nymph is a 10-minute silent film star­ring an all-dog cast (with a Frenchie cast in a star role!). The film made its debut in May at The Machine Project in Los Ange­les and while the film is silent, the music and singing cer­tainly are not. As the film plays, live opera singers and a string quar­tet per­form the accom­pa­ny­ing musi­cal score; pre­sent­ing romance and tragedy between two ship­wrecked lovers in dra­matic oper­atic fash­ion. The film seems to be on selec­tive tour and was pre­sented to a delighted audi­ence of humans and dogs at the Walker Art Cen­ter in Min­neapo­lis last night.

Con­ceived by artist Eliz­a­beth Cline, who wrote and directed it, this film could be the start of series. Other film cred­its go to com­poser Lewis Pesacov, cin­e­matog­ra­pher Amanda Law, and edi­tor Emily Lacy. (And of course all the canine stars!)

Enjoy the trailer below which explains the film, the artists, and the dogs. It may be time to peti­tion your local the­ater group for a night at the dog opera in your town!  :-)

Tragedy on the Sea Nymph from machine project on Vimeo.

Read more about this film at Laugh­ing Squid. Tragedy on the Sea Nymph, An All-Dog Opera

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