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08 November 2023 Stanford (California, USA)
Wu Tsang's Moby Dick; or, the Whale
New Century Chamber Orchestra - Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program Info: Caroline Shaw, Andrew Yee, and Asma Maroof - Moby Dick; or, the Whale
Award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion embark upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. The film includes original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live by New Century Chamber Orchestra.
This adaptation, written by Sophia Al-Maria and directed by Tsang, follows the white whale above and below the surface of the water, developing a visual cosmology that resists the exploration and exploitation of the earth under imperial colonialism. The narrative is interwoven with extracts by the Sub-Sub-Librarian, and tackles the novel’s subterranean currents, encountering the resistance of the ship’s hydrarchy, or organizational structure, and collectives of “mariners, renegades, and castaways,” as described by historian C.L.R. James.