Shelley's Blaze

Shelley's Blaze

59 mins | Drama, History | June 15, 2018

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.

Shelley's Blaze

59 mins | Drama, History | June 15, 2018

Shelley's Blaze
A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.
Producers MK2 Productions, Radio France, France Culture
Original title Le Brasier Shelley
Directors Ludovic Chavarot, Céline Ters
Writers Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cast

Gaspard Ulliel

as Percy Bysshe Shelley (voice)

Marianne Faithfull

as Narrator (voice)

Lola Peploe

as Mary Shelley (voice)

Christophe Dilys

as Percy Bysshe Shelley (English voice)

Warren Ellis

as Docteur Polidori / Echos (voice)

Jean-François Néollier

as Narrator / Sir Edward Trelawny (voice)

Tanguy Blum

as (voice)

Jérôme Ters

as (voice)

Leopold Tobisch

as (voice)

Céline Ters

as (voice)