CELTIC DVD
Beyond the Ninth Wave
Visual Poetry Animation
Annwn - In the Beginning by Jen Delyth, Poem by Gilli Smyth ©2002 ANIMATION PREVIEW

"A wonderful, luminous presentation! Beyond the Ninth Wave really brings the spirit of Celtic vision and imagination to life... I recommend this DVD to anyone interested in the lore and life of the Celts" John Matthews: author of "Encyclopaedia of Celtic Myth & Legend", and "Taliesin, The Last Celtic Shaman".

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Beyond the Ninth Wave ©2002

The Ninth Wave is a mystical fluid and ever changing boundary. Perhaps the border of the old country, or the Celtic Otherworld. Or a place between our waking thoughts and the realm of deep remembering.

Beyond the Ninth Wave" is a journey into the Celtic Mysteries. An interactive DVD of visual poetry animation, that weaves ancient folk tales with Celtic art and powerful images of birds, beasts and Otherworldly beings, through animated paintings of ancient symbols and sacred places

The high quality digital translucent layered images and brilliant colors of the animations intertwine with the poetry of ancient and modern Celtic voices. Viewers will be entranced by the inspirational visuals, and evocative music, and can follow their interest in the underlying symbolism with interactive access to over 100 pages of text explaining the background mythology and poetry.

Artwork & Animation by Jen Delyth

Poetry reading by Gilli Smyth

Music by Michael Masley

& Silver Arm

& Aryeh Frankfurter

Arranged by Jen Delyth

 

"Beyond the Ninth Wave" is performed by poet Gilli Smyth, inspirational mythic Mother of the 70s folk jazz band Gong, and includes some of her original songs, as well as traditional Celtic poetry.
Ecclectic musician Michael Masley plays the cymbalom, a variant of the hammer dulcimer, accompanied by esoteric percussion instruments.

Silver Arm continues its ten year tradition of performing traditional Celtic Music with enthusiasm
and respect for the spirit of this centuries old art form.

Aryeh Frankfurter Celtic/folk harper, violinist - multi-instrumentalist

The short films are richly layered, and feature Celtic artwork and film by Welsh artist Jen Delyth. Animated layered images paint themes from within the heart of Celtic mythology, illustrating the Celtic poetry that is brought alive by the music.

As a DVD "Beyond the Ninth Wave" can be played on home TV's with DVD players, and also many computers come standard these days with DVD players for desktop viewing. Our first release is NTSC only, however, 95% of European DVD players can play NTSC titles, by automatically converting the signal into PAL. This is an ALL REGIONS playable DVD.

DVD's allow for basic interactivity - and "Beyond the Ninth Wave" uses this to give the viewer navigational interactivity throughout its unique "story book" layout.