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The Miners Hymns
A Film by Bill Morrison
An elegy in film and music to the coal mining history of North East England, and a unique creative collaboration between the renowned American filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) and acclaimed Icelandic musician and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Created from archive and newly-shot film footage, The Miners Hymns celebrates the sense of vibrant community, rich, self-organised culture and the forbearance that characterised the lives of those who worked underground, and the places in which they lived. Accompanying Morrison s filmic collage, Jóhannsson s newly composed modern classical score draws upon the region s brass music culture: image and sound combine to create a rich homage to Britain s coal mining heritage.
Extra Features:
- New orchestral score presented in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes
- Interview with filmmakers
- Durham premiere coverage
- Fully illustrated booklet features newly commissioned sleeve notes
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An excellent film showing the mining industry and its people over the industries last 100 years with outstanding archive footage rarely seen.
Ultimately a sad story of the end of an industry and the end of an era, and worse the birth of a new era! of greed and individuals.
The score is another triumph from the Icelander Johann Johannsson (Fordlandia) and I recommend both the music CD and the film to you all.
NOT A DOCUMENTARY
Lovely archive footage and the Durham Miner's Lodge Banners interesting, intro has some aerial views of current use former pits.
Footage of nightshift miners walking to work with picks was other-worldly. Matched to stirring music.
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