Orson Rehearsed

Orson Rehearsed
Directed byDaron Hagen
Written byDaron Hagen
Produced by
Starring
  • Robert Orth
  • Robert Frankenberry
  • Omar Mulero
  • Fifth House Ensemble
Edited byDaron Hagen
Music byDaron Hagen
Production
company
The New Mercury Collective
Release date
  • February 2, 2021 (2021-02-02)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Orson Rehearsed is a 2021 American independent film by Daron Hagen about Orson Welles which combines elements of opera film, documentary film, and Surrealist cinema.[1] The narrative follows a 2018 staged production of Hagen's eleventh opera integrating extensive pre-shot films and electro-acoustic tracks in which, poised in the bardo between life and death on the night of his demise, Welles takes stock of his life.[2] Directed by Hagen based on his own screenplay and musical score, the film was produced by Burning Sled Media and the Chicago College of Performing Arts. It stars Robert Orth, Robert Frankenberry, and Omar Mulero as Welles, and features the Fifth House Ensemble.

Hagen began the screenplay in 2016 as a collection of 52 dramatic beats featuring Welles and Marlene Dietrich, John Houseman, Paola Mori, Rita Hayworth, and Marc Blitzstein set to original music by Hagen and words fashioned by Hagen from William Shakespeare and Welles' own public domain comments.[3] Conceived simultaneously as a live operas (in various dramaturgical configurations[4]) and a film that is an artwork in itself that folds the live performance into a larger vision, in spring 2018 Hagen pared down the 52 beats to 14 which centered on the character of Welles divided into three avatars—one young, one middle aged, and one on the night of his death.[5]

During 2016–17, Hagen shot and edited three sets of 14 60-minute films for projection over the heads of the onstage Orsons in live performance.[6] Hagen directed the staged premiere of Orson Rehearsed at the Studebaker Theatre in the Fine Arts Building (Chicago) in September 2018 in a staging designed to work in the theater but also to provide the shots mapped out in the 2016 storyboards.[7] From 2018-2020, he edited the musical soundtrack and folded the onstage films into footage of the staged premiere while adding another layer of semi-opaque images carrying a narrative unique to the film.[8]

The film was released on February 2, 2021, although a traditional art release has been delayed because of COVID-19, it has received substantial positive attention at film festivals worldwide,[9] receiving laurels for Best Musical Score, Best Composer, Best Director, and Best Editing.[10]

Plot

10 October 1985. Hollywood, California. Orson Welles' heart has just stopped. We enter his mind in this moment, on the threshold between life and death. In the liminal zone between life and death, Welles' thoughts flow as a stream of consciousness that loops back on itself, like a Möbius strip. Those thoughts are articulated by three avatars: the first represents the past, the memory of his youthful wunderkind self; the second represents his vestigial self-image as a swashbuckling mid-career artist, bemused to be crumpled on the floor in his bathrobe, dying; the last, represents his spirit, out of time—what Heidegger called an ecstace. On its face, the audience is presented with a series of essays about how opera and film overlap. The relationship between a man and the roles that he has played is examined—Falstaff, Othello, Brutus, Ahab, Kane, Quinlin (from Touch of Evil), and himself.

In stream of consciousness dramatic beats, he first surveys his relationship to the works of Shakespeare, then revisits the accidental drowning of Manoel Olimpio Meira during the filming of It's All True. He contemplates the sound of his own heart; and then lashes out, reliving the pain of his repeated loss of creative control in the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons. He recalls Marc Blitzstein at the piano the night that The Cradle Will Rock debuted before rolling into a rollicking remembrance of the high-octane life he led, reliving the giddy joy of careening across Manhattan in a rented ambulance (to better cut through traffic) at the top of his game on his way from a Danton's Death rehearsal to the War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

His thoughts turn to his despair at the recutting of Touch of Evil, which he repurposes in imagination as the realization that he is dying. He thinks back a few hours to his appearance that afternoon on The Merv Griffin Show, imagining himself as a manic marionette dancing for others’ amusement—the humiliation in having started at the top with Citizen Kane and having ended up doing wine commercials. He contemplates the solitary nature of existence before recalling his eighth birthday—the last time that he saw his mother. He asserts that his life's greatest mistake was that, when his mother asked him to make a wish before blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, he forgot.

He repurposes Shakespeare's great Falstaff credo as he mulls over Chimes at Midnight and the role of love: Maybe I did forget, he closes, poignantly, before having a vision of Rita Hayworth and singing a tender paean to domesticity and fatherhood. A passionate social activist, Welles' last thoughts are of the future: with the foresight available only to the dead, he mourns his country as the words of a xenophobic reality television president are intercut with Emma Lazarus' hymn to liberty. But the body gives out even though the spirit is still willing: it is no longer Welles' problem, it is ours. The avatars join together in a secular hymn: Our songs will all be silenced, they sing, but what of it? Go on singing. Go on. Go. And he does. We do.

Cast

  • Omar Mulero as Orson Welles #1
  • Robert Frankenberry as Orson Welles #2
  • Robert Orth as Orson Welles #3

Music

The soundtrack documents what audience members heard seated in the theater during the live performance of the score. Accordingly, the extensive electro-acoustic tracks crafted by Hagen are blended with the singers and the live instruments onstage performed by the Fifth House Ensemble. This stable soundscape was very lightly enhanced during post-production mastering, and the film edited to the soundtrack. The Naxos Records May 2021 release represents a hybrid of cast and soundtrack recording sound worlds.

Reception

Fanfare magazine noted, "Hagen's ability to meld a multiplicity of expressive devices into a coherent, expressive, and convincing whole is magnificent. Linking passages between scenes, to underline the dream-like stream of consciousness, are masterly, transitions seamless."[11] "The collage of ragtime, synth effects and post-romantic arioso engages," admits Steph Power in a two-star review,[12] while David Denton writes, "Do please hear Orson Rehearsed as a major contribution to 21st century music theatre."[13] [A] "dramatically compelling one-acter ... [set] in a compelling sound world," wrote Kevin Filipsky.[14] "This kind of approach with the potential to overwhelm an opera's subject and its audience. But the combination of Orson Rehearsed's brevity and Hagen's unerring sense of pacing wins the day. The cumulative effect is of a very individual, fascinating, and thought-provoking view of a life that was as influential as it was flawed."[15] American Record Guide noted, "I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable opera ... in a highly dramatic idiom."[16]

Awards

Awards
Year Award Category Result
2020 Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival [17] Best Composer; Best Director; Best Poster Art; Best Music Video Concept; Best Music Track; Best Musical Performance; Best Score Won
2020 Montreal Independent Film Festival[18] November Award - Best Composer Won
2020 LA Indies Festival [19] Best Composer Won
2020 Los Angeles Film Awards[20] October Award - Best Musical/Dance Film Honorable Mention
2021 Toronto Film Channel Awards[21] November Award - Best Composer Won
2021 New York Independent Cinema Awards[22] February Award - Best Director Won
2021 Austin International Art Festival[23] June Award - Best US Feature Film; Best Music in a Feature Film; Best Editing in a Feature Film Won
2020 American Golden Picture International Film Festival[24] October Award - Best Score; Composer; Best Editor Won
2021 4th Dimension International Film Festival[25] Best Experimental Feature Won
2021 Toronto Film and Script Awards[26] May 2021 Award - Best Experimental Feature Won
2020 Blue Ridge Film Festival[27] Best Experimental Feature Won
2020 United States Film Festival[28] March 2020 Award - Best Feature Film USA Won
2020 New Wave Short Film Festival[29] December 2020 Award - Best Film Score Won
2020 Logcinema Music Film Festival[30] December 2020 Award - Best Film Soundtrack on Any Subject Won
2021 Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival[31] Festival Award - Best Music Film Won
2021 Vancouver Independent Film Festival[32] Winter 2021 Award - Best Music in a Feature Film Won
2021 The Oaks International Film Festival[33] Best Musical Score Won
2020 Golden Valley Global Cinefest[34] Best Postmodern Film Won
2020 Chicago Indie Film Awards[35] November Award - Best US and International Composer Won
2021 Mindfield Film Festival[36] March/April Awards - Diamond Award for Best Original Score ; Diamond Award for Best Director; Platinum Award for Best Sound Design Won
2021 Global Music Awards[37] Silver Medal - Original Score / Soundtrack Won
2021 EdiPlay International Film Festival[38] May Award - Best Original Music Finalist
2021 Seoul International Short Film Festival January Award - Best Film Score Finalist
2020 Lonely Wolf International Film Festival[39] December Award - Best Live-Recorded Theatre Film Finalist
2021 Beyond the Curve International Film Festival[40] May Award - Best Original Music Finalist
2021 Prague International Monthly Film Festival[41] Best Original Music Finalist
2021 Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Performing Arts Film Finalist
2021 Phoenix Shorts[42] Best Original Score; Best Composer Semi-Finalist
2020 Madras Independent Film Festival[43] December Award - Best Feature Film Special Mention
2021 Milan Gold Awards[44] Winter 2021 Award - Best Musical Score Special Mention
2020 Tokyo International Short Film Festival [45] November 2020 Award - Best Film Score Honorable Mention
2020 Global Film Festival Awards[46] September 2020 Award - Best Original Score Special Mention
2021 Hyderabad International Film Festival Best Music and Sound Design Finalist
2021 Swedish International Film Festival [47] May–June 2021 Award - Best Original Music; Best Film Editor Won

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