My main aim for Minute Bodies – The intimate world of F. Percy Smith is that it invites Smiths work to breath and exist in the present.

Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith.

With tindersticks at its heart it also greatly benefits from the involvement of Thomas Belhom (percussion) and Christine Ott (Ondes Martenot and piano). There are also cameos from David Coulter (Musical saw and Nose flute) and Julian Siegel (Saxophone). It was recorded and mixed at the bands studio in France. With its insistent sexual rhythm, Minute Bodies is about the urgency of life on a cellular scal. richly steamy experience. In January 2016 Tindersticks released their new album ‘The Waiting Room,’ a milestone not just numerically (their 10th), but musically and creatively. Two decades into their musical voyage Tindersticks, established masters of restraint and poetic human emotion, are a band now confidently creating the best songs of their career.

Complete your Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott collection. 1. Percy’s theme (Ott) 2. Gathering moss (Boulter/Ott) 3. Magic myxies (Staples) 4. Peas and cues (Mckinna) 5. Tiny Honey Gatherers (Ott) 6. The world in a wine glass (taples) 7. Fireworks (Belhom/Staples) 8. The Strangler (Boulter/Staples) 9. Percy's dream (Ott/Staples) 10. Brewster's Magic (Ott) 11. Reversed frog (Ott/Staples) 12. Life cycle of a newt (Staples) 13. Reproduction montage (Belhom/Ott/Staples) 14. The scarlet runner (Boulter/Staples) 15. Percy’s dream (reprise)(Ott/Staples)

Country: UK & Europe. Special features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition A selection of films encapsulating the genius and art of F Percy Smith The Birth of a Flower (F Percy Smith, 1910, 8 mins) The Strength and Agility of Insects (F Percy Smith, 1911, 6 mins) The Wonders of Harmonic Designing (1913, 3 mins) Plants of the Underworld (1930, 11 mins) Nature s Double. Lifers Ferns and Fronds (Mary Field, 1932, 10 mins) He Would a Wooing Go (Mary Field, 1936, 8 mins) Lupins (Mary Field, 1936, 10 mins) The Life Cycle of the Newt (Mary Field, 1942, 10 mins)

The music was created from a loose collective of invited musicians.

Minute Bodies is all the more delicious for that, being a sticky montage of monochrome imagery: the buds and stems and cells and eggs of the natural world, suspended in silence against the blackness of the film frame. Sprouting seeds bud delicately furred roots in the darkness of the soil; a flower with quivering petals opens to reveal its veined heart; the globular tips of slime fungus glisten in the gloom, with pin-point reflections on their sleek surfaces creating alien eyes. Elsewhere vines wind around nearby branches, a tadpole bursts from its jelly shell and cells divide and multiply,. Cinematographer F. Music Thomas Belhom, Christine Ott, Tindersticks. Print Source Icarus Films liviausfilms.

The music was created from a loose collective of invited musicians

MINUTE BODIES: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith trailer.

The latest ‘film and music’ project of Tindersticks is a collage of the science films made in early 1900s by F. Percy Smith-naturalist, inventor and documentarist. It took three years to complete this nature documentary, poetic music video, or ode to science, which was scored by Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott. The characters of Smith’s black and white time-lapse films mostly shot under a microscope are spores, microbes, leaves, insects, and myriad mysteries of nature.