THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE - film footage

Film footage from Stephen Earnhart's multimedia stage production based on the international best-selling novel by Haruki Murakami, first presented at The Public Theater's "Under the Radar Festival," New York City. Footage was later used as projection elements during live production.

This seems to recall films like Dark Water, The Grudge and The Ring.

THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

This week Edinburgh hosted the world premiere of a new production based on Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's the story of an unassuming everyman who is thrown into a state of confusion following the unexplained disappearance of his wife and his cat. As well as being a portrait of a marriage in crisis, and a Chandleresque detective story, the play also explores wider issues, reflecting Japan’s wartime horrors and questioning its place in the world today. The production, by Greg Pierce, and former head of production at Miramax, Stephen Earnhart, is a technically challenging fusion of live action, film, puppetry, dance and projection.