the alchemy of man

'The Alchemy of Man' is a creative collaboration across the worlds of music and film. SonVer perform a live concert featuring tracks from throughout their back catalogue and incorporating various new improvised and experimental elements, accompanied by 7 bespoke short films. Using a minimal brief to encourage complete creative freedom, each of the 7 films has been created by independent filmmakers from across Europe, resulting in a unique blend of style and inspiration.

'The Alchemy of Man' is a stunning visual and aural interpretation of the ancient alchemical process and its psychological parallels within human experience.

Photos from SonVer's

'Alchemy Of Man' set at

Latitude Festival,

19th July 2009.

All photos by Fi Witton.

Boldizsar Csernák-Riskó

Boldizsar is a Hungarian artist/filmmaker who moved into the artistic world collaborating

on many projects in Budapest. His recent film work explores the relationship between the

body, space, time and perception. He has shown work at various international film festivals.

"As an experimental filmmaker I am highly inspired by the music of SonVer. In this film I explored substances and liquids and their interactions in a simple way - I just wanted to

capture their complexity and beauty."

Remco Stoppelenburg

"Since my youth I have always been facinated by film and video. I have grown up knowing where

I want to go creatively - and have now studied at Media college for 4 years. When asked to work

on this project, in a couple of hours I had the whole story in my head and after countless times

listening to the track I knew exactly how I wanted to put it on screen.

With a classmate I shot the clip in just one day."

Director, Editor: Remco Stoppelenburg Producer: Momo Zarroue

Girl: Lokke van der Wal Boy: Bart Ruysendaal

Jonathan Hickley

"I love creating imaginative worlds and for this film I created a surreal dreamlike landscape,

which I wanted to fade in with elements of the real world - the traveller is somewhere between

the two worlds and as the film goes on he begins to separate between either place. The butterfly

is the one pure thing in both worlds and he is lured to it..."

Directed and Produced by: Jonathan Hickley Cameraman: Nick Miller

Staring and Edited by: Christopher Stitchman Thanks to: Big Squid

www.jonhickley.co.uk

Peter Sieben

Founder of Orphic Film and long-standing collaborator with SonVer (Fade - 2007), Peter

is especially interested in the creative side of filmmaking; capturing movement that relays emotion to the viewer. His films have been played at several international film festivals,

receiving various awards. This film features the talents of several Dutch actors, starring:

Geerteke van Lierop, Urias Boerleider, Chris Mennen (pictured) and Eliza Duinhoven.

Esteban Frost

Armed with a History degree, no media skills and zero contacts, Esteban set out confidently

in 2004 to conquer the media industry...finally getting a foot in the door in 2007. In his

own time he works and collaborates on written, photographic and video projects. Esteban is

thrilled to be working with SonVer, having been a fan of the band before being invited to participate. The video features talented theatre actress Georgia Winters and was shot on an

HDV camera using 35mm Nikon lenses.

Jan Bednarz

From plasticene to people... Jan is an animator turned documentary filmmaker working

across a variety of genres. From sensitive stories with the terminally ill, to international adventures in the developing world, Jan has a history of making documentaries for TV

(C4, Five, ITV + Cable), alongside promotional films for the third sector and the music industry. Jan is currently developing a raft feature of independent film projects as ‘Buzz Films’ -

a newly formed partnership with music promo and drama director Robin Schmidt.

www.narz.tv