The Eternity Man
Julian Temple:
The Eternity Man (Australia, 2008)
63 min. - English
From renowned director Julien Temple and an award-winning production and creative team - comes a Film Opera about World War 1 veteran and recovering alcoholic, Arthur Stace.
Arthur Stace found the Lord when he heard the reverend's words 'Eternity, Eternity, I wish that I could sound or shout that word to everyone in the streets of Sydney.' For almost 40 years, ex-alcoholic Stace roamed Sydney writing 'eternity' in perfect copperplate script on the city's pavements. In 2003, Australian composer Jonathan Mills and novelist and poet Dorothy Porter combined to create an opera based on Stace's life. Julian Temple, director of music-related films such as The Filth & the Fury and Absolute Beginners, has joined this creative team to film the opera live on Stace's Sydney streets. With Australian baritone Grant Doyle as Stace, Sydney songstress Christa Hughes as his sister Myrtle, and a 25-piece orchestra conducted by rising star Stuart Stratford, Temple builds a sound-and-image-scape of Sydney unlike anything you've seen or heard before.
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JULIEN TEMPLE
A graduate of the National Film School, British director/screenwriter Julien Temple is noted for his music-oriented features and documentaries. He first gained critical acclaim with his 1980 rockumentary look at the Sex Pistols in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (the film was originally to have been directed by Russ Meyer, but creative differences over the interpretation of Temple's script led him to take over the film himself). Fictional features include Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) and Bullet (1996).
