Image credit: Mathew Knight, Kenyon Shankie, and Jeff Avery

NO MAN’S LAND Composer: John Psathas, Director: Jasmine Millet Cinematographer: Mathew Knight

WITH SUPPORT FROM: Creative NZ and WWI00.

Produced by Victoria University of .

With support from: the Lottery Grants Board, Adrian Durham, the British High Commission, the Polish Embassy, the French Embassy, the - Friendship Fund, Radio New Zealand Concert, Park Road Post Production, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand Defence Force.

When Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April, 2016

Duration 20 minutes

COMPOSER’S INTRODUCTION – JOHN PSATHAS

Why musicians travelling in the footsteps of soldiers 100 years ago? If we could go back in time and say to those on the battlefields “guess what happens here in 100 years” – would they believe us? If we said the same thing to those fighting now, would they believe us? Would we believe ourselves?

We now wage war on our own species. But even at our worst, humanity and empathy continue to survive. Our story culminates in acts of kindness: soldiers from opposing sides, ‘enemies’, offering each other water, a cigarette, a shoulder to lean on. Even – incredibly – in what is surely one of the most bizarre and dangerous inventions of the human mind: a place called no man’s land.

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ORIGINAL ARMENIAN LYRICS, FROM POSTLUDE (LAMENTOS) - (80-minute film version only)

English Translation of the lyrics Gyanke mechernis voronoum e' Life is searching within us for a concert of Daak aryuni hantes boiling blood Mahe mezi modetsnum e' Death is getting us closer to the entrance Eyoutian semi vaay Asdvadz of Being Trakht yev djokhk Dear God Ays gyankn e' Heaven and Hell, Martgutyioune haaverj goradz It's this life Manougi demkin unpidz sere Humanity eternally lost Haghtanagne' me'r jumpaan The pure love on the face of a child Is the victory, our road 

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PROGRAMME - NO MAN’S LAND

Part 1 Oh Beloved Music John Psathas Onscreen Renkei Hashimoto ------Shakuhachi Ariana Tikao ------Voice Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui ------Voice Meeta Pandit ------Voice Women of the Polish Radio Choir ------Voice Marta Sebestyen ------Voice

Part 3 Soul of Mine Soundscape David Downes Recitations Monsieur Claude ------Catholic The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque ------Islam Himanshu Dixit ------Hindu Michael Mandel ------Hebrew Monseigneur Job ------Russian Orthodox Transitions David Downes Music John Psathas Polyphonic- Singing Gareth Lubbe Featuring Simone Rebello ------Wind Chimes Kostas Theodorakos ------Marimba Petros Kourtis

------Percussion Part 2 Shellshock Andreas Pappas Music John Psathas ------Percussion Onscreen The Nudge

------Voice Svet Stoyanov ------Davul Alexej Gerassimez ------Bass Drum Benjamin Schafer ------Bass Drum Bijan Chemirani ------Bendir Paolo Cimmino ------Tamorra Shahbaz Hussain ------Tabla Yanal Staiti ------Dumbek David Ross ------Snare Drum David Henderson ------Snare Drum Fara Diouf ------Djembe

Refugees of Rap

------Voice Part 4 Anthem Music John Psathas Featuring Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr ------Gaida, Bagpipes Netherlands Blazers Ensemble ------Wind and Bass Orchestre Philharmonique - de Strasbourg, Tecwyn Evans ------Conductor Danny Cudd & Markus Johansson ------Hang Drum Joshua Hyde ------Saxophone Svet Stoyanov ------Davul Alexej Gerassimez ------Bass Drum Benjamin Schafer ------Bass Drum Bijan Chemirani ------Bendir Paolo Cimmino ------Tamorra Shahbaz Hussain ------Tabla Yanal Staiti ------Dumbek David Ross ------Snare Drum David Henderson ------Snare Drum Fara Diouf ------Djembe Jack Hooker ------Guitar Mateusz Szemraj ------Guitar Polish Radio Choir ------Voice Pierre Mea ------Organ Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi ------Ney

CREDITS CREATIVE TEAM

John Psathas (Composer/Producer) Jasmine Millet (Director/Producer) Mathew Knight (Director of Photography) George Kariotis (Sound Engineer) Roger Grant (Editor)

LYRIC CREDITS

Original Lyrics Concept (Part 1) Translation Marco Sonzogni Hungarian Lyrics (Part 1) Marta Sebestyen & Lackfi Jάnos Hindi Lyrics (Part 1) Meeta Pandit Lyrics (Part 1) Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui Te Reo Maori Lyrics (Part 1) Ariana Tikao Armenian Lyrics Serj Tankian (80-minute film version only) Arabic Lyrics (Part 2) Refugees of Rap

PRODUCTION TEAM AND CREW Line Producer Pamela Cain Project Supervisor – Victoria University of Wellington Euan Murdoch Post Production Supervisor Roger Grant Second Camera Jeff Avery Visual Effects/Projection & Concept Design Creature Post & Lakshman Anandanayagam Production Coordinator Eric Millet Production Assistant – Victoria University of Wellington Debbie Levy Emily Argyle Production Assistant Angela Cudd Daniela Conforte Camera Assistant Vasconcellos Creative Sound Design/Additional Percussion Arrangements Dave Downes Recording Engineer John Neill Graham Kennedy Lee Prebble Toby Lloyd Recording Engineer & Production Assistant Jack Hooker Production Assistant & Music Production Kenyon Shankie Steffan Paton Vocal Consultant Briar Prastiti

EARLY DEVELOPMENT TEAM RESEARCH Marie Jones Jasmine Millet, Eric Millet Mike Wallis Heather McKay, Charlotte Clech Inge Rademeyer

FIXERS Poland - Krzysztof Szczuchniak, Tomasz Idzikowski, Andrzej Trzeciak Belgium – Freddie Declerck France - Andrei Brauns India - Mahesh Pillai, Amit Vachharajan

PRODUCTION FACILITIES Story Shop, Conbrio Media, Park Road Post, Creature Post, Sierra Recordings, The Surgery Studio, Radio New Zealand, Park Road Post, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music

ARCHIVES

Archives New Zealand, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena – University of Otago, National Army Museum NZ, AP, Library of Congress, Imperial War Museums, British Library, ECPAD, National Library of New Zealand, National Library of Scotland, Sir George Grey Special Collections Auckland Libraries, AFP, San Diego Air & Space Museum, DPA, German Federal Archives, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Roger Viollet, Mary Evans Picture Library, Library & Archives Canada, Canadian War Museum, Australian War Memorial, New South Wales State Library, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Shapoor Bhedwar – Not titled [group portrait of a family], c.1910.

ALL MUSICIANS AND NATIONALITIES

Armenia/USA Serj Tankian (Voice/Lyrics) Australia Joshua Hyde (Saxophone) Bulgaria Svet Stoyanov (Percussion) France Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg Pierre Mea (Organ); Monsieur Claude (Gregorian Chant recitation) Alexej Gerassimez (Percussion); Benjamin Schafer (Percussion) Greece Stratis Psaradelis (Lyra); Vagelis Karipis (Percussion); Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Hungary Marta Sebestyen (Voice) India Meeta Pandit (Voice); Himanshu Dixit (Hindu Religious Recitation) Iran/France Bijan Chemirani (Percussion) Paolo Cimmino (Percussion) Japan Renkei Hashimoto (Shakuhachi) Morocco Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice) Netherlands/Belgium Netherlands Blazers Ensemble (Wind and Brass) New Zealand Tecwyn Evans (Conductor); Hayden Chisholm (Saxophone, Bagpipes); Caleb Robinson (Bass); Ariana Tikao (Voice/Lyrics); The Nudge; Iraia Whakamoe (Drums); Ryan Prebble (Guitar); James Coyle (Keyboards); Joe Callwood (Guitar); Jack Hooker (Guitar) Pakistan/UK Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla) Palestine Nawras Alhajibrahim (Bass); Yanal Staiti (Percussion) Poland Polish Radio Choir; Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr (Gaida, Bagpipes); Jolanta Kossakowska (Voice, Violin); Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar) Russia Monseigneur Job (Russian Orthodox recitation) Saudi Arabia The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque, Paris (Islamic Recitation) Scotland David Ross (Percussion), David Henderson (Percussion) Senegal Fara Diouf (Djembe) South Africa Gareth Lubbe (Polyphonic Singing) Markus Johansson (Hang Drum) /Palestine Refugees of Rap - Yaser Jamous, Mohammed Jamous (Rap) Turkey Derya Turkan (Kemence/Composer); Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi (Ney) UK Danny Cudd (Hang Drum); Simone Rebello (Percussion) USA Russel Walder (Composer) ; Michael Mandel (Hebrew Religious Recitation)

OFF-SCREEN PERFORMERS

Greece Kostas Theodorakos (Percussion); Petros Kourtis (Percussion); Andreas Pappas (Percussion) Aotearoa (Taonga Puoro) Additional Musician Tom Callwood

THANKS

Neil Quigley, Grant Guilford, Frazer Allan, Helen Clark, Chris Finlayson, Celia-Wade Brown, Dilys Grant, Catherine Galuszka, Vicki Jackways, Dean Watkins, Nigel Scott, Rob Rabel, Sotiris Beckas, Nik Zahariadis, Simon Bowden, Lesley and Michael Shanahan, Jamie Selkirk, Rosalind Plimmer, Zbigniew Gniatkowski, Raynald Belay, Anne-Christine Roussel, Joel Watson, Embassy of Poland in Wellington, The Embassy of France in Wellington, British High Commission, High Commission of India in Wellington, Embassy of Greece in Wellington, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand High Commission London, New Zealand Embassy Warsaw, New Zealand Embassy Brussels, New Zealand Embassy Paris, Goethe Institute, WW100 Project Office, ACAP Pole d’Images, Film Lorraine, The team at the Wellington Quarry, Arras, Mayor of Arras, Urszula Wojnar, Lidia Morawska, Office of Tourism Verdun, Screen Auckland, Carla Psathas, Anita McKegg, Tricia Walbridge, Cheryl , Shelagh Murray, Kirsten McDonald

INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS

Part 1: Part 3: Passendale, Belgium Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Whitirea Park, Porirua, Wellington: [Ariana Tikao Passendale, Belgium (Voice)] Reims Cathedral, Reims, France: Paris, France: [Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice)] [Catholic Recitation - Monsieur Claude] Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: Grand Mosque of Paris, France: [Meeta Pandit (Voice)] [Islamic Recitation - The Grand Mufti] Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: [Marta Sebestyen (Voice)] Hindu Temple, Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: Part 2: [Hindu recitation - Himanshu Dixit] Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Tempel Synagogue, Krakow, Poland: Fort Douaumont, Verdun, France: [Hebrew Recitation - Mike Mandel] [The Nudge; Ryan Prebble, Iraia Whakamoe, James Cathedrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsk, Paris, France: Coyle] [Russian Orthodox - Monseigneur Job] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Carriere Wellington, Arras, France: [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare [Gareth Lubbe - Polyphonic Voice] Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Douamont Ossuary, Verdun, France Schafer (Bass Drum)] Hooglede German Cemetery, Belgium Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Noyelles-Sur-Mer Chinese cemetary, Somme, [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain France (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Tyne Cot cemetery, Ypres Salient, Belgium Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Argonne, [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino)] France Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France Galleries Guinot, Verdun, France: [Refugees of Rap] Somme river, France

Part 4: Fort I, Przemysl Poland: [Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr (Gaida, Bagpipes)] Frise Sur Somme, France: [Netherlands Blazers Ensemble] Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: [Jack Hooker (Guitar), Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar)] Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino] Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: [Danny Cudd & Markus Johansson (Hang Drum)] Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: [Joshua Hyde (Saxophone)] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Schafer (Bass Drum)] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Reims Cathedral, France: [Pierre Mea (Organ)] To find out more about the project, please visit: Strasbourg Orchestra, Strasbourg, France Massif fortifie de Souville, Verdun, France http:www.nomanslandproject.org/ Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France