Short film explores emotional effect of pandemic on performers Date published: 17 April 2021
Angel of History is a moving short film by digital artist Grant Archer
Oldham Coliseum Theatre has released the first of its Micro Commissions 2021, Angel of History, a moving short film by digital artist Grant Archer.
In 1940 the philosopher Walter Benjamin described a Paul Klee painting, Angelus Novus, as showing an angel of history transfixed by a past he perceives as catastrophe but which is propelling him forward into the future.
Angel of History is a collaboration with ballerina Nicky Henshall, actress Shobna Gulati and composer Akshay Gulati, exploring what it has meant to be a performer during the Covid-19 pandemic, when all regular creative outputs had been restricted.