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Neptune

2013 · Video for Holst’s The Planets · Commissioned for the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra

Neptune is a video made to accompany the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Anne Scott Wilson was commissioned to make the video for the last movement, Neptune, the Mystic.

She responded to the character of Neptune, the mystical planet: a pale ribbon of fabric drifts, lifts and folds over dark water and among the timbers of a pier, in black and white.

A pale ribbon of fabric twisting in the air beside dark pier timbers
Neptune, 2013, video still
A ribbon of fabric drifting low over dark water, reflected below
Neptune, 2013, video still
A ribbon of fabric rippling under the beams of a pier
Neptune, 2013, video still
Year
2013
Medium
Video, black and white (6 min 39 sec)
Music
Gustav Holst, The Planets: Neptune, the Mystic
Commission
Willoughby Symphony Orchestra