An award-winning film to match the score of
Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth.
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Dance, cinematography, music come together in this powerful story of history and our changing relationship to the natural world.
This visually rich, 50-minute film invites viewers to witness the earth’s creation journey through time to our present day. The film was created to sync with a recorded performance of Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth by renown Dutch composer Johan de Meij.
Cine-Symphony Planet Earth was awarded Best Feature Film by the Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival, 2022. It will be shown at the Environmental Film festival in May and selected film festivals this year. Classical music streaming platform Stingray Classica has also scheduled the Cine-Symphony as a part of its Johan de Meij programming in 18 countries.
The film was created to mesh with a live performance of Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth by renown composer, Johan de Meij.
A transporting merger of film, symphony, and choir with A TIMELESS HOMERIC MESSAGE.
Written as a sequel to Gustav Holst’s, The Planets, Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth tells the story of the planet Holst forgot to include:Earth. De Meij’s symphony is an ode to Mother Earth and like Holst’s work, employs a full symphony and female choir.
Over the past 16 years, it has built a steady following across five continents.
Audience comments from the March 2022 Environmental Film Festival
“Wow. I am completely floored by this. The music is beautiful, stunning and majestic. It’s spectacular. Thank you for making this.”
“A surreal experience... It felt just as grand as the universe that it was conveying.”
“A cool immersive audio-visual experience where you can sit and appreciate planet earth and all its glory…Captivating.”
“A very clever way to tell the history of the natural world…with a beacon of hope at the end.”
“A mixture of Fantasia and The Planet Earth series on Disney.”
Other Reviews
The film gives the orchestral score a whole new dimension. The interaction between music and film makes the concert an intense and unforgettable experience.
Anthony Fiumara - Music Journalist, Composer, Professor of Composition at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Tilburg-The Netherlands
A brilliant composer and orchestrator, Johan De Meij’s tour-de-force symphony Planet Earth has been visually realized by Dyan Machan’s stunning new film CineSymphony-Planet Earth, directed and edited by Jed Parker. Seen through the primordial eyes of the Greek goddess Gaia, ancestral mother of all life, this film is an impassioned sonic and visual experience not to be missed.
Preston Stahly, artistic director, Tribeca New Music Festival