Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard
2006 · 90 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 82 VOTES · DIR. Clive Collier
Overview
Sanctuary is the first documentary film on the life and work of Lisa Gerrard. Made over the course of a year, it is an intimate portrait of an artist who shares some of her deepest and most creative and emotional insights on all aspects of her life and career. The film illustrates Lisa's connection with nature but also the essence of her music and singing as strong spiritual expression. Each section talks about the different components of Lisa's career: her beginnings with the formation of the Dead Can Dance group with Brendan Perry in the '80s, her film solo career, the reformation of Dead Can Dance for a world tour in 2005 and aspects of her family life which support and influence her work. Also including interviews with Lisa Gerrard, Michael Mann, Russell Crowe, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, Niki Caro, Graeme Revell, Pietro Scalia, Mark Magidson, Brendan Perry and more.
Dialogue Timeline — 707 lines
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00:00:36 STORM CREATION presents
00:05:26 or we have armour, defences, cynicism or an attitudinal set of barriers that we impose..
00:09:07 I had an e-mail once from a guy that was a soldier in Iraq.
00:13:32 ..because like a lot of natural things it's kind of unairing.
00:17:17 ..in a way it's communicating with the cars.. with the sound of the cars.
00:21:08 ..in those Arabic tones, i sounded like she was actually singing a song about California.
00:23:37 And there in Baraka, it was married with these images of a tragic content.
00:30:24 Why wouldn't I develop a language that's influenced by the exotic perfumes of the East or of Northern Europe?
00:34:46 ..to "The Isle of Dogs" which is probably one of the poorest parts of the east end of London at that time.
00:38:07 Lisa's sense of humour and little quirks about her personality.
00:42:26 I don't believe that we were convinced by the music we were making.
00:45:27 ..from your thoughts I don't think it's possible..
00:48:51 ..if I take this music which makes me feel that way and put it in this movie..
00:51:12 I remember thinking when I first saw the opening scene of "The Insider" when I first saw the movie..
00:53:59 She said "No"!
00:56:49 lnside she was deeply moved by it. She could be deeply upset.
00:59:54 I want it then and I want it on that bit of picture.
01:02:21 What is it I am going to find? Hm am I going to find something like this?
01:05:18 l started to read it and I couldn't stop..
01:08:20 ..or within a contemporary scheme of things whether it be Western or whatever..
01:12:24 ..and a lot of obviously very intense close working between Lisa and Brendan.
01:16:01 ..and then suddenly Lisa started singing.
01:20:55 She can't control when music happens in her..
01:23:52 A sorrow or losing a good friend that's where her refuge will be.