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*Official Selection in 2005 and 2006 at the [[London Film Festival]]/ [[2005 Toronto International Film Festival]] /[[Tribeca Film Festival]] /[[Miami International Film Festival]]
*Official Selection in 2005 and 2006 at the [[London Film Festival]]/ [[2005 Toronto International Film Festival]] /[[Tribeca Film Festival]] /[[Miami International Film Festival]]
*Official Selection in 2011 at the [[Copenhagen International Documentary Festival]]/ [[Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival]]/ [[DOXA Documentary Film Festival]]/ Magnificent 7 festival
*Official Selection in 2011 at the [[Copenhagen International Documentary Festival]]/ [[Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival]]/ [[DOXA Documentary Film Festival]]/ Magnificent 7 festival

==Commissions==
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/design/37005/behind-the-scenes-at-puiforcat.html Hermès/Puiforcat - TELEGRAPH]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jc-KV0AgkY 12 Portraits - WONGA ]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizOIs0Y9eQ Peter Blake | Crowds - MANDARIN ORIENTAL HOTEL]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.theprophetfilm.com/The_Prophet_Film/HOME.html]
*[http://www.theprophetfilm.com/The_Prophet_Film/HOME.html The Prophet]
*[http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html Passion Pictures]
*[http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html Passion Pictures]
*[http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_bs.php Second Run]
*[http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_bs.php Second Run]

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Gary Tarn
File:Portrait Gary Tarn.jpg
The Prophet directed by Gary Tarn
Born (1962-01-01) January 1, 1962 (age 62)
Occupation(s)Director and composer
Years active1985 – Present
SpouseKaren Tarn
ChildrenBiba Tarn and Booker Tarn [1]
Websitewww.garytarn.com


Gary Tarn (born 1962) is a British filmmaker and composer. He received success as a member of Drum Theatre (musical group), topping the UK charts in 1985 with "Eldorado”.

For several years he created soundtracks for commercials, and occasionally short films, including the Brothers Quay’s short The Phantom Museum. This work led to the decision to make a film himself. It was initially intended to be a short but developed into Black Sun (2005 film), his debut film. He shot, edited, scored, produced and directed the film, “just to see if it could be done” and it was executive produced by Alfonso Cuaron and Frida Torresblanco and produced by John Battsek.

It was shot in the USA, Iceland and India on 16mm film [2] and is based on interviews with Hugues de Montalembert, an artist and filmmaker who was permanently blinded in 1978 when, during a violent scuffle, a mugger threw paint thinner in his face. De Montalembert' “narrates his own journey into blindness”. Tarn broke down de Montalembert's spoken account of his experience, fragmenting sentences into separate phrases and building "chapters" for the story. He then concocted a different visual approach for each chapter. He altered his 16-mm footage in various ways, creating some of the effects in the camera or altering the lens during shooting [3]. Throughout the film, de Montalembert's face is never seen on screen. [4]

Released in 2005, the film won a number of International Awards and was nominated for The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director in their First Feature Film at the 2007 BAFTA awards 60th_British_Academy_Film_Awards[2]. It was screened on HBO in 2007 [3] and was number 12 in Tim Robey's top 100 films of the decade[5] .

In 2006, while “Black Sun’ was screened at a festival in Serbia, Tarn began to shoot his next feature, an adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (book) [6].

The Prophet switches between digital and 16mm film [7] and is a series of brief sequences mirroring the book’s structure.[6]. It was shot in Belgrade, New Bedford, London[2] , New York, Milan and Lebanon. Kahlil Gibran had a benefactor for much of his adult life, Mary Haskell, and Tarn used her letters to Gibran to create a narration for the film, voiced by Thandie Newton. [2]

“The Prophet” opened at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival in 2011. Tarn considers it to be a documentary, though the spoken narrative is completely fictional, “taken as it is from a poetic novel”, in so far as John’s Grierson defines documentary filmmaking as the “creative treatment of actuality”. [2] It was part of the official selection for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival and Magnificent 7 festival. [8]. However, due to copyright issues, “The Prophet” cannot be exhibited in the US until 2016-17. [4]

In 2007 Tarn was cinematographer for Alfonso Cuaron’s The Possibility of Hope.

Tarn currently has a project with Alain de Botton in development and is working on a children’s film. [2]


Awards

Commissions

References

  1. ^ a b Jill Macnair (11 December 2005). "Stealing the scene". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Gianmarco Del Re (2003-08-03). "Launch pad". Fluid Radio. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  3. ^ a b Peter Bowen (2007). "SEEING IN THE DARK". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  4. ^ a b Theresa Everline (2007-02-28). "Capturing a Blind Man's Vision". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
  5. ^ Philip French (2006-03-07). "Black Sun". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-09-30.
  6. ^ a b Pamela Cohn (2012/01/24). "Gary Tarn". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 2014–10-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  7. ^ David Jenkins (2012/09/28). "The Prophet Review". Little White Lies Magazine. Retrieved 2014–10-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  8. ^ Gary Tarn. "Bio- Gary Tarn". GaryTarn.com. Retrieved 2014–10-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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