sei-chikyu ron
David Kristian and co-composer Al Savoie have just wrapped up work on two new projects with Ryosuke Aoike,
the first is a live-action/anime dramatic adaptation of
Doraemon
co-creator F.
Fujio Fujiko's
Sei-Chikyu
Ron Sci-Fi manga starring Tanimura Mitsuki (Tokyo Zombie,
Pieces of Love) and Kobayashi Susumu (Kurosagi, Long Vacation).
The half hour program is the fifth of six
Ishoku
Tanpen-Shu (Unique Short Stories) which will began airing on
October 31st on the
WOWOW
network. The second project is Aoike's own The Fleas
(for which Al provided voices),
a short subject (no pun intended) examining the problems of world
leaders from a very different perspective.
walled in
David is also putting the finishing touches on his score for Gilles Paquet-Brenner's
Director's Cut of
Walled
In, starring Mischa Barton (The O.C., Assassination of a
High School President, Malice in Sunderland), Cameron Bright (X-Men:
The Last Stand, the 4400, Running Scared), and Deborah Kara Unger (Silent
Hill, Crash, Shake Hands with the Devil). The film is based on
the novel "Les Emmurés" by French writer Serge Brussolo. The film's
website, which incorporates a few snippets of David's music is now up
and also includes more info and behind the scenes photos.
morris county
David has recently completed the score to the upcoming
Morris County,
an equal parts drama, horror, true-crime anthology and
life-cycle piece following three sets of characters on their individual
journeys into oblivion. Morris County is written and directed by
Matthew Garrett and produced by Thomas R. Rondinella (Unholy,
Charming Billy); the film stars Pamela Stewart (A Dog Year,
100 Proof, Amateur), Albie Selznick (TV's 24,
Suddenly Susan) and newcomers Alice Cannon and Darcy Miller.
Watch the teaser trailer
here.
the broken imago
David has been asked to score Douglas Buck's Eco-Horror
project, The Broken Imago. Watch this space for upcoming
news, and the film's teaser trailer, which also features David's music
and sound design. In the meantime, you can get other gory details
from
Dread Central.
sisters
David joined forces with Emmy
Award winning composer
Ed Dzubak
to score Douglas Buck's Sisters, which stars Lou Doillon
(the new face of Chanel), Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t
Cry, Big Love, Zodiac), and Stephen Rea (The
Crying Game,
V for Vendetta). Sisters is produced by Edward R.
Pressman (The Cooler, American Psycho, Bad
Lieutenant), who also produced the 1973 Brian DePalma
original. Some of you may remember David and Ed's previous
collaboration on Douglas' Buck's
Prologue,
which appears on Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America.
Read a
review
of Sisters by Variety's John Anderson.
applied-acoustics interview
String Studio VS1 fanatic David Kristian discusses the
particularities of Horror film scoring, the peaceful coexistence of
analog and software synthesizers in his electronic music setup, and the
art of creating live soundtracks with delay loopers, in this installment of
Head2Head on the
Applied-Acoustics Systems website. David is also developing a
Cinematic String Studio sound bank, which should be available later this
fall.
catman
David also worked on six episodes of
Ryosuke Aoike's
Catman for Fuji TV. David's sound effects and
70's crime film influenced
music cues help flesh out the now longer installments of
the cult web animation series which features music from unstoppable Ska
group The
Planet Smashers.
pithecanth
It's 7am in Tokyo, and lowbrow, or should we say prominent brow humor is
the order of the day, as
Ryosuke Aoike and David Kristian team-up once
again to warp young minds with Pithecanth, a Tokyo TV series
about the Java Man, believed to be the the first known specimen of Homo
erectus. Pithecanth is ripe with flatulent monkeyshines, prehistoric highjinks,
and classic cartoon humor.
The 13 episode series not only features music and sound design by David
Kristian, but he is also part of the voice cast, playing the part of
"Sinister", the eldest of the prehistoric clan.
american psyche
David has just finished scoring
Paul van den Boom's
American Psyche, a documentary examining the current social
mindset in the United States through a series of interviews with
Americans of diverse race, gender, religion, and socio-economic
standing. David also scored the film's trailer and created the
music for the Boom Pictures Logo. American Psyche should be
available on DVD in the coming weeks.
the abandoned
Over
70 minutes of David Kristian's
unsettling music and soundscapes are featured along with the work
of legendary sound designers
Glenn Freemantle and Andy Wilkinson (28 Days Later, V for Vendetta),
and composer Alfons Conde (who wrote the opening titles music) in Nacho Cerdà's long awaited
The
Abandoned. The film stars Anastasia Hille (The Hole, RKO
281) and Karel Roden (Hellboy, Running Scared, The Bourne Supremacy),
and was written by Nacho Cerdà, Karim Hussain (La Belle Bȇte,
Ascension) and Richard Stanley (Hardware,
Dust Devil).
The
Abandoned had its World premiere screening
at the
Toronto International Film Festival as part of the fest's
Midnight Madness program, and was also voted audience
favorite during the
8 Films to
Die For After Dark Horrorfest in November 2006. The film
opened in theaters across North-America on February
23, 2007. Read interviews with Nacho Cerda and Karim
Hussain in issue #259 of
Fangoria and
issue #67 of Rue
Morgue, which tells the whole story as to why David was called in at
the 11th hour to replace most the film's score.
the descendant
David has been making a name for
himself as the composer of choice for all things ghostly, as his music
can also be heard (and felt) in Philippe Spurrell's
The Descendant.
The film's preview screening at the 2006 edition of the FanTasia Film
Festival was deemed a triumph for the up-and-coming Montreal Director,
who was even treated to a standing ovation from an enthusiastic sold-out
crowd. The film had its theatrical premiere September 26th,
2008 at the Cinema
du Parc in Montreal, playing to record attendance and being held
over for an extra week.
the 4th life
David also created music and soundscapes
for
filmmaker Francois Miron's
The 4th Life. The film stars
Janet Lane (Lucky Number Slevin, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
and Andrea Sheldon (Gothika). The 4th Life was recently
screened at the
Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival in Italy, and was also shown
at the
Boston Underground Film Festival (March 22-27 2007).
The 4th Life had its Canadian premiere on
July 19th, 2007 at the
FanTasia Festival in Montreal.
la belle bete
David served as composer and special sound
designer for Karim Hussain's
La Belle Bȇte,
(The Beautiful Beast)
which stars Caroline Dhavernas (Hollywoodland, Breach,
Wonderfalls), Marc-André Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y.), Carole
Laure (Les Fils de Marie, Maria Chapdelaine) and David La
Haye (Nouvelle France, Marie Antoinette). The film is
based on a classic Quebec novel by author Marie-Claire Blais (Éditions
Boréal), and tells the
story of a widowed mother and the twisted, dysfunctional
relationship she has with her two teenaged children. The
DVD
is
now available to purchase or rental from Equinoxe
Films/Warner Home Video.
La
Belle Bȇte
recently received the Director's Choice
Best Feature award at the
Boston Underground Film Festival. Read a recent review
of the film on the
Dread Central site.
Fans of Karim Hussain's unique cinematic vision will also be glad
to hear about the new 6 DVD boxed set available from Stockholm
based
Njutafilm, one of the leading Scandinavian distribution
companies dealing in alternative, cult, experimental and classic
feature films and documentaries for the Nordic and European
market.
The Karim Hussain Boxed Set includes many never before seen
or heard extras such as deleted scenes from Subconscious
Cruelty, Making-of featurettes, and David Kristian's
soundtrack to Ascension, complete with unreleased cues.
